. The National Civic Federation review . cover the scars where the battles werefought; the places made empty by the dead willbe occupied; time will dry the tears and com-fort the hearts of the sorrowful. But, in an-other sense, the effects of the war will be in-eradicable. The processes of human intercoursehave been profoundly disturbed, and the slowlybuilt foundations of civilization themselves, men-aced with destruction. Old and respectable max-ims of government have been put under suspi-cion ; long cherished theories have been chal-lenged and abandoned; in Europe the old orderand the firm r
. The National Civic Federation review . cover the scars where the battles werefought; the places made empty by the dead willbe occupied; time will dry the tears and com-fort the hearts of the sorrowful. But, in an-other sense, the effects of the war will be in-eradicable. The processes of human intercoursehave been profoundly disturbed, and the slowlybuilt foundations of civilization themselves, men-aced with destruction. Old and respectable max-ims of government have been put under suspi-cion ; long cherished theories have been chal-lenged and abandoned; in Europe the old orderand the firm rock upon which it seemed to restare both trembling at the edge of a new anddreadful barbarism. The sentiment that once justified a quick ap-peal to force as a righteous remedy for grave in-ternational wrongs, has been largely supplantedby the feeling that war is a thing which, underno circumstances, is capable of justification, andthat a substitute must be found and acceptedat whatsoever cost or hazard. Any proposal By GEORGE SUTHERLAND. GEORGE SUTHERLAND which promises this desired result makes a pow-erful appeal to the better side of our nature,and objections challenging its practicability orsuggesting countervailing perils are receivedwith some degree of impatience as though theywere contentions in favor of war for its own sake. And yet the fact that humanity has neverbeen free from recurrent warfare in any age orunder any form of government or any degree ofcivilized culture, should admonish us that weare dealing with a problem of great and stub-born difficulty, the solution of which does notlie at the end of a royal road of easy passage,but to which we shall come, if we come at all,only after long and patient search for the way. The contention that war in and of itself is everdefensible is a monstrous perversion; but thatwar as an alternative may be justifiable, andeven commendable, is beyond dispute. Rightthinking men can never accept the theory thatwar is a biological nec
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