The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

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The Titanic, greatest of ships, has gone to her ocean grave. What has she
left behind her? Think clearly.
She has left debts. Vast sums of money have been lost. Some of them are
covered by insurance which will be paid. The rest is gone. All wealth is
insecure.
She has left lessons. The risk of running the northern course when it is
menaced by icebergs is revealed. The cruelty of sending a ship to sea
without enough life-boats and life-rafts to hold her company is exhibited
and underlined in black.
She has left sorrows. Hundreds of human hearts and homes are in mourning
for the loss of dear companions and friends. The universal sympathy which
is written in every face and heard in every voice proves that man is more
than the beasts that perish. It is an evidence of the divine in humanity. Why
should we care? There is no reason in the world, unless there is something
in us that is different from lime and carbon and phosphorus, something that
makes us mortals able to suffer together-- „For we have all of us an human
heart.“