Herein lies the chief service of war. (War is also calling out men’s higher virtues, such as love and devotion to the fatherland, sympathy with one’s compatriots, display of sacrifice, return to simple life, etc.) It is the creator of the highest idealism, which is capable of the supreme sacrifice, life itself. Such high idealism is found only among the warlike nations of the world throughout human history. These same warlike nations, the Hebrews (the Bible is replete of war-narratives), the Greeks, the Romans and the Teutons, have also built up the higher civilizations. Only those absorbed in the category of the ideal, in the enthusiasm of humanity, can be seized by the great ecstatic impulsion to war. The vulgar, the ignorant, the selfish, engrossed in their own small affairs and engulfed in the mire of utilitarianism, for whom the only meaning, worth and work of life is barter, have no conception of the highest sacrifice, which is life, and can not comprehend the meaning of war, nor do they ever contribute to the ideal edifice of a higher civilization. [DR] The author will follow here the discoveries of Morgan as described in his “Ancient Society.” Morgan divides the human history into three periods—savagery, barbarism and civilization. He then subdivides the first two epochs into three stages each. In the lower stage of savagery man lived on trees and in caves. His food consisted of fruits, thus being compelled to live in warm climates where his food was always to be had. In this stage men lived in a kind of monogamy. The middle stage of savagery begins with the discovery of fire. Fish was added to man’s food. In this way men were able to move in hordes in colder climates. The upper stage of savagery dates back from the invention of the bow wherewith man could hunt his prey. The lower stage of barbarism begins with introduction of pottery, the middle stage with the introduction of agriculture and the upper stage with the discovery of metals. The last is the stage wherein the Homeric Greeks live. Simultaneously with humanity’s advance from the lower to the higher stages, the relations of the sexes also changed. [DS] Punalua is an Indian word for uncle. In this family the children do not know their father, but they know the brother of their mother. The uncle is thus the relative who looks after the special interests of his sister’s children within the clan.