World Peace

Excerpt from World Peace: How War Cannot Be Abolished, How It May Be Abolished
The intensity and far reaching effects of the present war have led people to think with unwonted seriousness of the advantages of peace and of the ways and means that have been suggested for the abolition of war.
According to strict pacifists, Belgium did wrong in arming herself for war. She should have met the advancing Germans with a simple protest. Fighting, they say, can never be right. There are peace fanatics probably in all countries, but in none do they form public opinion or determine foreign policy. There is no peace-at-any-price nation. On the other hand, there seems to be a general, world-wide desire for the abolition of war, based not upon immorality, but upon the cost and inconvenience of it, to neutrals as well as to belligerents.
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