A mechanistic view of war and peace . THE PHENOMENA OF WAR 39 men. Species-preservation and self-preservation areoften antithetical; in other words, struggle for lifedispossesses impulses to procreation. As the strugglefor life lessens, the phenomena of procreation in-crease, a fact demonstrated by the fashions, amuse-ments, and the type of indulgences of prosperousseasons. In a period of war, however, the fittestmales are called to the battle line, and the womenare mobilized for relief. The antithetic reaction ofsaving life becomes as strongly stimulated as thereaction of destroying life, and
A mechanistic view of war and peace . THE PHENOMENA OF WAR 39 men. Species-preservation and self-preservation areoften antithetical; in other words, struggle for lifedispossesses impulses to procreation. As the strugglefor life lessens, the phenomena of procreation in-crease, a fact demonstrated by the fashions, amuse-ments, and the type of indulgences of prosperousseasons. In a period of war, however, the fittestmales are called to the battle line, and the womenare mobilized for relief. The antithetic reaction ofsaving life becomes as strongly stimulated as thereaction of destroying life, and the impulse to pro-creation loses its claim to the final common disappears. The males struggle inbattle for the preservation of their tribe or nationagainst their enemy; the females struggle in thecare of the sick and wounded to preserve their raceand tribe, by mitigating the destructive work of theenemy. The military unfit strive to fill the vacantplaces in the ranks of industry and of science. Thusthe non-comb
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