ABSTRACT

The mentality of war-making is a precise opposite of the mentality of peace-making. War is division, peace is the healing of division. War is reciprocal destruction, peace is reciprocal construction. The new peace must be built on the equality of all peoples before the new law, the law of nations. The economic benefits of assured peace are so great and so universal, as against the staggering costs of war, that probably even the munition makers, turning to other products instead, would profit by it. A statistical investigation has shown that peace treaties in modern times have stayed intact for an average. Peace is never the ripe fruit of victory. Those who are most successful in war-making may be least successful in peace-making, and it is part of this tragic cussedness of things that because they succeed in war they are in a position to determine the peace.