410 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 
stinted exertion and universal responsibility, which universal military 
duty is now teaching European nations, will remain a permanent acqui- 
sition, when the last ammunition has been used in the fireworks that 
celebrate the final peace. I believe as he does. It would be simply 
preposterous if the only force that could work ideals of honor and 
standards of efficiency into English or American natures should be the 
fear of being killed by the Germans or the Japanese. Great indeed is 
fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make 
us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges 
of men’s spiritual energy. The amount of alteration in public opinion 
which my utopia postulates is vastly less than the difference between the 
mentality of those black warriors who pursued Stanley’s party on the 
Congo with their cannibal war-cry of “meat! meat” and that of the 
“general staff” of any civilized nation. History has seen the latter 
interval bridged over: the former one can be bridged over much more 
easily. 
