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huge war debts and of pensions for millions of 

 widows and orphans, the legacy of bitterness and 

 hatred, the increased militarization of the minds 

 of the people, and the destruction of millions of 

 the flower of the race? 



It is obvious that no adequate compensation 

 for sacrifices of such magnitude can be found in 

 material gain, conquest of territory, war indemni- 

 ties, or capture of a rival's trade. 



Only an intellectual revolution, a turning away 

 from the false philosophy of force which has 

 produced such disastrous fruits, can render an 

 adequate compensation for the devotion and 

 self-sacrifice with which millions of men have 

 given their lives for what they believed to be a 

 great ideal. Only a reconstruction of society 

 upon the sounder foundations of a philosophy 

 of co-operation and justice can make it possible 

 to say that these sacrifices have not been made in 

 vain. 



What are the indications that we may hope for 

 such an intellectual revolution, which will prepare 

 the way for the organization of a new Europe and 

 a new world? 



The war alone cannot be expected to produce 

 such an intellectual revolution. Mankind is, of 

 course, much more impressed by cataclysmic 

 events, by the unusual and dramatic on a vast 

 scale than by the ordinary occurrences of everyday 

 life, and the treaty of peace which ends the war 

 may be expected to mark the beginning of a new 



