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Roman Empire, pacified and not having any more 

 external enemies, will be the day on which morality 

 und intelligence will run the greatest dangers. 



In England, Ruskin has held war to be the 

 source of all the arts. In an address on war 

 delivered at Woolwich Arsenal, he said': 



. . . War is the foundation of all the arts ... of 

 all the high virtues and faculties of men. . . . There 

 is no great art possible to a nation but that which is 

 based on battle. . . . All great nations learned their 

 truth of word, and strength of thought, in war; they 

 were nourished in war and wasted by peace; taught 

 by war and deceived by peace; trained by war and 

 betrayed by peace. 



In Germany Nietzsche has given the philosophy 

 of force almost classic expression. In Nietzsche 

 we find the same idea as in Renan; that peace 

 leads to stagnation, war to progress: 



Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars, and the 

 short peace better than the long. 



I do not advise you to work, but to fight. I do not 

 advise you to conclude peace, but to conquer. Let 

 your work be a fight, your peace a victory ! 



One cannot be silent and sit still unless one hath 

 bow and arrow. Otherwise one talketh and quarreleth. 

 Let your peace be a victory ! 



Ye say, a good cause will hallow even war? I say 

 unto you: a good war halloweth every cause.'* 



' The Crown of Wild Olive. 



' Thus Spake Zarathustra : I. " Of War and Warriors." 



