THREE ROOTS OF WAR.
War has, we now* know, a triple root, writes Mr Gerald Heard in contributing to a composite hook, " The New Pacifism." It springs from political problems and diplomatic disingenuousness, from patriotic prestige and that love of sway over or d,eceiving an antagonist, wh'ioh frame of mind hecomes a second nature to those who have won that national power hy the exercise of such emotions and exclusive refleetion on such thoughts. War, however, also springs from economie problems and financial devices. Thirdly, it springs from those unresolved and unconscious neurososes, those profound ixmer conflicts, which, if we do not know how to cure, we project on the world, assuaging our misery hy hlaming and flnally assaulting others. War cannot, then, be really cured unless all these three sources are dried up. ... , . ■ . .. ,
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370621.2.45.2
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 132, 21 June 1937, Page 6
Word Count
134THREE ROOTS OF WAR. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 132, 21 June 1937, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in