COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



had continued twelve months, the consequent 

 suffering in Lancashire was manifesting itself 

 in riots, and England for a time seemed willing 

 at all hazards to interfere and check the contest. 

 This single example — out of hundreds that 

 might be taken — must suffice to illustrate the 

 way in which the ever-increasing interdepend- 

 ence of human interests, itself both the cause 

 and the effect of industrial progress, is ever 

 making warfare less and less endurable. To 

 this it must be added that both moral and in- 

 tellectual factors contribute to bring about the 

 general result. As human interests in various 

 parts of the world become more and more inex- 

 tricably wrought together, and as communities 

 which lie apart from each other come ever into 

 closer contact, the ancient antagonisms of senti- 

 ment between them slowly disappear, and inter- 

 national friendship grows at the expense of the 

 old hostility or distrust. Thus the moral adap- 

 tation due to long-continued social discipline 

 diminishes the warlike feelings and strength- 

 ens the feelings which maintain an industrial 

 regime ; while on the other hand, intellectual 

 adaptation, ever adding new complication to 

 industry, arrays the opinion of society more and 

 more decidedly against war, as against an in- 

 tolerable source of disturbance. Besides which, 

 the very heterogeneity of the military art, the 

 increasing complication both of the implements 

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