It is the same to-day. The laws of brotherhood--brotherhood of
individuals, brotherhood of nations, or aggregations of
individuals--are unchanged and unchangeable. It is only for the world
to hear and to do.

The doctrine that war is a biological necessity must go by the board.
The teaching that war is needed to harden men and nations must be
placed in the realm of pagan fiction.

If war is a necessity for man, it is a necessity for woman. If it is
good for men, it is good for children. If it is good for nations, it
is good for states. If it is good for states, it is certainly good for
cities. If it is good for peoples, it is good for individuals.

War is Hell, and from Hell. Hell may not be abolished, but it may be
regulated.

Wars may not be abolished from the human heart, but they may be
restrained from breaking forth to the destruction of the innocent and
the guiltless.

There is only one practical way to do this, and that is to have nations
under restraint, just as nations have states and cities under
restraint. Then international courts of justice may perform the same
work national courts now perform in respect to differences between
states.

Man has come up from the individual, or dual, unit through family and
tribal relation, the walled city, the policed state, into the armed