Hermann Hesse: Our patient old earth, so littered with the dead and dying, so ravaged and shattered, so charred and desecrated

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts German writers on peace and war ==== Hermann HesseTo a Cabinet MinisterAugust, 1917Translated by Ralph Manheim Your speech was well constructed; otherwise, it was not particularly original, significant, or provocative. Reduced to the essentials, it was roughly what government officials have been saying in their speeches […]