CAN THE WORLD SURVIVE UNBROKEN PEACE?
'Alas I there seems no very obvious rush for peace, either between nations or citizens. A writer in the "Hibbert," Mr. G. F. Bridge, says:—"We aro hardly fit yet for the unbroken reign of peace. Perhaps wo aro not yot sufficiently evolved. _ The effect of tho total absenco of conflict is to mako us cold, soft, lazy, and pleasure-lov-ing much more than to mako us gentle and amiablo. True, there are cho struggles of politics" and the rivalries of commerce, but who has ever been heard to call politics or commerce a school of discipline and_ 6elf-sacrifice ? Maybe after all thero is somo truth in Treitschke's much-criticised saying: "i'ho living God will sco to it that war constantly returns as a dreadful medicine for the human race.'" Thero is, however, no need at this moment to worry about the possiblo rcpotition of the demand for this "dreadful medicine," or to wonder whether tho heavenly pharmacies havo not other work to do than make up such dreadful prescriptions. Tho present war has taught lis more than we shall live up to, even if wo reach three score years and ten.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 93, 12 January 1918, Page 9
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195CAN THE WORLD SURVIVE UNBROKEN PEACE? Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 93, 12 January 1918, Page 9
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