"One to undo, as far as possible, the work of the other. The second
army, not the first, is the test of humanity's advance; the army that
tries to keep life in the man the other army has tried to kill, to
give back what has been taken away, to help what has been hurt, to
feed what has been starved, to clothe what is made naked, to build up
what has been broken down. Each country that to-day gives fight,
equips and trains and sends out two contrasting armies. They work
together, but with opposing purposes. The second army--"

"Has a good many women in it. But it's so stupid, so wicked and
wasteful, to fight over things that are rarely finally settled by
fighting. It's bad business!" My hands twisted shiveringly in my
lap. "Do you suppose the time will ever come when man will see it's
the animal's way of getting what he wants, of keeping others from
getting what he's got, of settling difficulties and defending points
of view? Do you think he'll ever find a better way?"

"In a few thousand years--yes," Selwyn again smiled and, changing his
position, stood with his back to the fire. "When we have the same
code for nations as for individuals, the same insistence that what's
wrong in and punishable for a man is wrong in and punishable for his
country, or when we cease to think of ourselves as group people and
remember we are but parts of a whole, we may cease to be fighting
animals. Not until then, perhaps. Personally, I think war is a good
thing every now and then. That is, in the present state of our
undevelopment."

"So do I." David Guard's shoulders made energetic movement. "War
brings out every evil passion of which man is possessed, but it has