Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
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