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another duty, greater still, which is to impress upon humanity 

 the fact that the same qualities of mind which have given to 

 science such wonderful success in the past must also be used by 

 mankind in general if they wish for a continuance of the 

 civilisation which science has helped to make. 



The war has produced an immense revolution in the mind 

 of every man who has one — silent to-day, but which will speak 

 to-morrow. Two years ago mankind was like a youth walking 

 in the sunshine in a beautiful world, confident in himself, in 

 his management of the world, and in what he thought were 

 essential parts of him, the intelligence and virtues which made 

 him akin to angels. To-day this great vision is broken, and 

 he finds that there are also within him the innate infamy and 

 stupidity of the brute — the heart of the tiger and the brain of 

 the baboon. 



One fact about the war stands out predominantly, unques- 

 tionably, and written in letters of fire upon the night of the 

 present. Before the war there were probably not a dozen 

 persons in the whole world who consciously and prepensely 

 desired any war at all, and if there were twelve such persons they 

 lived only in Germany. Many of the wise foresaw the coming 

 struggle, and urged the world to prepare for it ; but this does 

 not mean that they desired it. In France perhaps there were 

 some who knew better than others the ultimate designs of 

 the German preparations ; but was there a man in France who 

 was such a fool as to wish for war for itself ? We can say 

 definitely that the whole of the British Empire, certainly, con- 

 tained not a single man or woman who had ever even conceived 

 so villainous a crime. At the same time every one capable of 

 reasoning saw what such a war would entail ; and who would 

 not have been willing to sacrifice much of his wealth or leisure 

 to prevent it ? Yet, in spite of this attitude of the innumer- 

 able millions of humanity, a small gang of unspeakable scoun- 

 drels have been able to impose this monstrous calamity upon 

 their fellow-men — not for any ultimate benefit of humanity, 

 not for any cause or dogma which they rightly or wrongly 

 considered to be true or great, but entirely for their own personal 

 glorification. For this purpose they have torn to pieces millions 

 of their own countrymen and of the neighbouring nations ; 

 they have left millions of mourners ; they have destroyed cities 

 and ancient buildings ; they have crushed the weak ; they have 



