Wells adds[4] that he thinks that the conceptions of order and discipline, the tradition of service and devotion, of physical fitness, unstinted exertion, and universal responsibility, which universal military duty is now teaching European nations, will remain a permanent acquisition, when the last ammunition has been used in the fireworks that celebrate the final peace. I believe as he does. It would be simply preposterous if the only force that could work ideals of honor and standards of efficiency into English or American natures should be the fear of being killed by the Germans or the Japanese. Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy. The amount of alteration in public opinion which my utopia postulates is vastly less than the difference between the mentality of those black warriors who pursued Stanley's party on the Congo with their cannibal war-cry of "Meat! Meat!" and that of the "general-staff" of any civilized nation. History has seen the latter interval bridged over: the former one can be bridged over much more easily. [1] Written for and first published by the Association for International Conciliation (Leaflet No. 27) and also published in _McClure's Magazine_, August, 1910, and _The Popular Science Monthly_, October, 1910. [2] "Justice and Liberty," N. Y., 1909. [3] "First and Last Things," 1908, p. 215. [4] "First and Last Things," 1908, p. 226. XII REMARKS AT THE PEACE BANQUET[1]