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the control of blind social forces. The irresistible 

 growth of democracy in all parts of the world will 

 be tremendously stimulated. We may expect 

 whole libraries of books to be written upon 

 methods of propaganda and the organization of 

 campaigns for changing and enlightening public 

 opinion, just as they are now written upon military 

 strategy and tactics. Monuments and tablets of 

 honour will be erected to the great educators, 

 statesmen, authors, and men of genius, just as 

 they are now erected to the great leaders of 

 armies and navies whose work has been chiefly 

 destructive, but whom we believe to be the 

 leaders and saviours of civilization, because of the 

 dominance of the doctrine that war has been the 

 cause of human progress. 



The chief advantages which will flow from such 

 an intellectual revolution, however, will occur 

 through the establishment of a sounder and truer 

 social philosophy as the foundation for a recon- 

 structed civilization. Our detailed analysis has 

 shown that the whole philosophy of force is false 

 and constitutes one of the most colossal and disas- 

 trous errors that has ever darkened the soul and 

 mind of man. For a large part of the human 

 race, even though it does not make this careful 

 analysis, the great outstanding fact of the war 

 itself will furnish a sufficient demonstration that 

 the path of force is a wrong one and military power 

 is a futile instrument to advance the welfare of 

 any nation or even to protect a nation from the 



