THE WORLD REVOLUTION 28 



principles of universal Right and Justice. The 

 great aim and object of scientific war as set forth 

 in textbooks, now notorious, of the military nations 

 of Western Europe, was to be successful. Every 

 means to that end was, in the last resort, held to 

 be justifiable. All questions of right, of feeling, of 

 justice, of the sanctity of agreements or treaties, 

 or even of humanity, became, in the last issue, 

 nothing more than questions of expediency or the 

 reverse in aiming at success. 



Our time has witnessed the fighting leaders of 

 races with unmeasured ages of conquest behind them 

 turning in the middle of current civilization with 

 the silent joy of the essential pagan to the stupendous 

 task of organizing all the accumulated resources of 

 the world to the making of war on these principles. 

 The first outward result of a gradual return to 

 the standards of savagery in European diplomacy 

 has just been described. The next world-shaking 

 chapter in the international position was about to 

 open. But the conditions in which we have to 

 witness the labour movement in the social war be- 

 coming involved in all countries in the same cycle 

 of events have an extraordinary interest. 



It has been said that the first principle upon which 

 the supreme overlords of force had, 'with far-seeing 

 vision, based all their plans for the organization of 



