# Stand Up, Ye Dead

Author: Maclean, Norman, 1869-1952

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33636

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Stand+Up%2C+Ye+Dead+Maclean&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The greatest disaster of these days has befallen in the streets and lanes of our cities at home, and, because it has happened in our own midst, we are blind to it. And, also, it has come upon us so gradually and so surreptitiously that, though we are overwhelmed by it, we know not that we are overwhelmed. Our capital cities are leading the nation in the march to the graveyard. In London the birthrate has fallen in Hampstead from 30 to 17.55, and in the City itself to 17.4; in Edinburgh it has fallen in some districts to 10. In many places there are already more coffins than cradles. What would the city of Edinburgh say or do if suddenly one half of its children were slain in a night? What...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stand-up-ye-dead-33636/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stand-up-ye-dead-33636/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stand-up-ye-dead-33636/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stand-up-ye-dead-33636/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stand-up-ye-dead-33636/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stand-up-ye-dead-33636/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stand-up-ye-dead-33636/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/stand-up-ye-dead-33636/chapters/4/index.md)