IN PRAISEE OF WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 227, 30 October 1909, Page 4

IN PRAISEE OF WAR.

GGRMAX PEACE DELEGATE'S REMARKABLE BOOK. Berlin, September 1. "The World-State and the I'eaee Problem," a remarkable book, designed to 1 .miilari?!' war, is about to be published lin liei'lin. The author, Baron von Stengel, ■a distinguished Bavarian jurist, was OU3 'of 1 lermany's delegates to tile first Hague Peace Conference. The preface declares that the book has been called forth by fne conviction that "the growth of tile "J once movement involves a national .'"a chaoter entitled "The Significance lof War for the Development of ll'.iI inanity" makes the following striking stiteinenU: I -War ha* more often facilitated than | j hindered human progress. Athens and I L!»>me not only in spite of, hut just be-| I cause of. their many warn rose to the Ix ihlli of civiliantioit. (J rent States like l(i«'-manv and Italy arp welded into na--1 UonalitiV: only through blood and iron. I ''Storm imrilies the air and destroys the frail tiees, leaving the sturdy'oaks standing. War is the test of a nation's political, physical, and intellectual worti. The State in which there is much that k rotten may vegetate for a while in peace, but hi war its weakness is re-v-'.aled, •'Germany's preparations for war hayo riut resulted in economic disaster, but in unexampled economic expansion unquestionably because of our demonstrated superiority over France. It is better to spend money on armaments and battleships than luxury, motormania, and other sensual living."