ABSTRACT
Nobody uses such language today, not only because ours is a less philosophical age but because it is a more skeptical age. It must of a peace that will recreate the hopes that were destroyed by the last peace and by the subsequent, and consequent, depression. It was almost as if in the prosperous but unhealthy nineteen-twenties the youthful, venturesome spirit that had made America had given way to a kind of elderly caution. Americans have long regarded Europe as a restless and explosive continent, incurably warlike, perversely opposed to such peaceful and unfortified frontiers as that between this country and Canada -which Americans sometimes commended to the attention of Europeans. The younger generation, who will bear the burden of the peace and of the next war to end war, would not care for such an immobile universe even if one were available.
