ABSTRACT
The real difference between free cultures and cultures pervaded by the principle of servitude and bondage is determined by whether they are constituted for the avoidance of crises, their prevention, and their alleviation; or whether their charter aims at the preparation of crises. War and war alone among all human activities is the principle of the collective abrogation of law and of the substitution of organized crime. The anthropologist is in a position to trace the phenomena of human strife and fighting throughout the ages; from the beginnings of civilization to that new type of savagery against which we are now fighting in the hope of abolishing war forever. The first really effective advantage derived by the conqueror from intertribal fighting is associated with an economic phenomenon as important in human evolution. The organization of violence, economic, physical and spiritual, has led to innumerable wars: wars of class, wars of ideas, and wars of loot.
