viii INTRODUCTION 



III. The Purpose of a Righteous Peace 



When the present conflict of moral and physical 

 forces has attained a new state of equilibrium; when 

 hate, and fear, and greed are for the moment impotent 

 to attack or defend ; men will seek, as never before, to 

 understand the causes of war, and to find the means of 

 avoiding it; for no further demonstration of the futility 

 of war for war's own sake will be required. 



All the nations and peoples of the world, the con- 

 querors and the conquered, the innocent and the guilty, 

 will loudly proclaim the impel ative necessity of a last- 

 ing and a "righteous peace." 



But, if they sincerely desire to establish a righteous 

 peace, they must first seek in their councils to reach 

 some conclusion as to the meaning of "righteousness," 

 and the purpose of a "peaceful" life. 



Rightness may not be circumscribed by any reli- 

 gious creed, nor by race or color; nor high or low de- 

 gree of wealth or poverty, weakness or strength, intelli- 

 gence or stupidity. Indeed it cannot be limited in its 

 scope to purely human affairs. The foundations of 

 Tightness lie deeper than man and his institutions. 

 Rightness has its roots in the physical and animal make- 

 up of man, in the sources of his origin, maintenance, 

 and growth. All the evolutionary processes which have 

 produced man must be right processes, as his actual 

 existence, his progress in the past, and the growth and 

 existence of his fellow creatures abundantly testify. 



What then is the nature of these processes? Why 

 do we call them righteous? What shall we say of the 

 purpose of man? Why is he here? What is peace for? 

 What part does man play in the grand strategy of evo- 



