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stinted exertion and universal responsibility, which universal military 

 duty is now teaching European nations, will remain a permanent acqui- 

 sition, when the last ammunition has been used in the fireworks that 

 celebrate the final peace. I believe as he does. It would be simply 

 preposterous if the only force that could work ideals of honor and 

 standards of efficiency into English or American natures should be the 

 fear of being killed by the Germans or the Japanese. Great indeed is 

 fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make 

 us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges 

 of men's spiritual energy. The amount of alteration in public opinion 

 which my utopia postulates is vastly less than the difference between the 

 mentality of those black warriors who pursued Stanley's party on the 

 Congo with their cannibal war-cry of " meat ! meat " and that of the 

 " general staff " of any civilized nation. History has seen the latter 

 interval bridged over : the former one can be bridged over much more 

 easily. 



