What is needed is a permanent and widespread organization embracing
Trades Unions, Churches and affiliated bodies, Schools and
Universities, basing its work on some definite doctrine of
International Policy which can supplant the present conceptions of
struggle and chaos.
I speak, at least, from the standpoint of experience; in the last
resort the hostility, fear and suspicion which from time to time
gains currency among the great mass of the people, is due to those
elementary misconceptions as to the relation of prosperity, the
opportunities of life, to military power. So long as these
misconceptions are dominant, nothing is easier than to precipitate
panic and bad feeling, and unless we can modify them, we shall in
all human probability drift into conflict; and this incident of
Lord Roberts' speech and the comment which it has provoked, show
that for some not very well defined reason, Liberals, quite as much
as Conservatives, by implication, accept the axioms upon which it
is based, and give but little evidence that they are seriously
bestirring themselves to improve that political education upon
which according to their creed, progress can alone be made.
Yours very faithfully,
A.W. HAYCOCK.
End of Project Gutenberg's Peace Theories and the Balkan War, by Norman Angell
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