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Excerpt from Peace and War in Europe
Fundamentally, therefore, the two questions that are pressing upon me, as upon all of you, are, What is our duty during the war? What is our duty in the making Of peace? In the simplest language, I may say that our duty during the war is to make war Victoriously; our duty in the making of peace, to make peace permanently. This, however, only provokes the further question, How can we make war victoriously? How can we make peace permanently? The first of these questions is essen tially one for the naval and military chiefs, and for the financial and diplomatic heads of the State. The second one is emphatically a question for the historian and the sociologist, and to deal with it demands that preliminary scientific study of the forces for war and peace which I have desired to take part in.
The forces that work for war or for peace between nations seem to me to be capable of being classified under four different heads. Firstly, there are the biological forces which generated wars in early times, and which, to a certain extent, underlie war in the present day; and the somewhat cognate economic forges which are brilliantly but not adequately dis cussed by Mr. Norman Angell in The Great Illusion. Secondly, there are forces arising out of con?icts of religions, and out of the inculcation Of militarist and warlike ideals in the name Of religion.
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