“ If one were allowed to be human rather than humane, there would be a general yielding throughout the allied world to the temptation to express the hope that the Germans may have the disease in a severe form. That would be no more than they deserve, indeed, but for at least one reason—the reason that wishes, in such matters, do not count either way—it is better not to put in definite form a desire which, after all, is worthier of Germans than of civilized people.
Moreover, if the influenza is raging on one side of No Man's Land, it is sure soon to appear on our side of the lines. ”

“ Living conditions on board of them, while different from those on the old slavers, are almost as bad, and what they would do in the way of changing familiar germs, such as those of malaria or coryza, is a matter, not of opinion or prophecy, but of experience and observation. That they might produce a malady grippe-like, but not grippe, and worse than grippe, cannot be denied offhand. ”