ABSTRACT
But in the third place, let us at once make clear, that there is nothing in the least alarmist or defeatist in the theory here advanced. We do not hold, nor think it possible to hold, that because war is a chronic social disease it is necessarily an incurable disease. Not only have we emphasized throughout this article that the forces making for peaceful co-operation have been more powerful in history than the forces making for war, but we have not yet considered the implications of our evidence for the theory of the cure of war-the therapeutic as distinct from the causal problem. This we shall attempt to do after we have examined the bearing of this theory upon other theories of the cause of war. All that it is necessary to do at this stage is to repeat and emphasize these three points :
1. Far more of the time and vitality of any nation has been absorbed in past history by the activities of peaceful co-operation than by war. The impulses to peace are therefore more powerful than the impulses to war. Hence the problem —how can they be further strengthened?
