ABSTRACT
The problem of peace bristle with difficulties which are not yet apparent to everybody; but one need only consider the hypothesis most favourable to the Allies in order to make the fact plain. The German peace conditions involve the ruin and spoliation of the vanquished we also know from the last speeches delivered in the Reichstag by the Chancellor and the Finance Minister. The future of Europe seems dark enough to-day; but as all forecasts are mere hypotheses, everybody may choose the one which satisfies him best. European civilization cannot be preserved except by the union of the three Great Powers, Germany, France, and England. Many writers have shown that warfare is inevitable as well as useful, that conflict is a law of nature, that strife exists everywhere, even in the cells of our bodies, that its slackening means illness, and that its cessation is death.
