This presents to us the other horn of the logical dilemma. All states owe it to themselves and to the world to become thoroughly militarized. Hatred and rivalry must be constantly cherished. Socialism’s dream of an international brotherhood that has beguiled the hearts of many who fear most of its other principles is indeed only a dream to be dispelled when the State’s real function is exercised. Iron, hinting its own scarcity, must be primarily used for Busy Berthas, submarines and breast piercers. Motor trucks which it was hoped were to be the disseminators of food and strength are to become the swift germs of international disease. Much of the ever-growing spring of inventive geniuses must be turned from its natural channel of construction to flow through the ways of death and destruction. The works we glory in in times of peace must become the enemies of life. Ships that float upon the bosom of the air deal their horrible and flaming shafts. The dove-like aeroplane becomes the eye of the army dragon. War states shall build this commerce but to destroy it as children knock down their toy houses. Philanthropists shall attempt to soften and heal the sore spots of society but to see the nations’ statesmen tear and rend the living flesh, leaving ulcers that cannot close for years. The war state of course has satisfactory reasons for making war for growth and development. It must make war to spread its civilization and destroy other civilizations. There could be no concert or symphony of civilizations properly speaking. Civilizations serve their purposes only as they die and pass away. The myriads of philanthropists, social workers, statesmen and jurists in various states that have not received the gospel of war are not building for all time. They are building primarily to render more glorious the victory of the war state. Artists that create, architects that build are only making structures whose rôle in man’s history is to be noble ruins. Physicians and scientists shall study man’s body, make warfare upon his unseen enemies, plan and plot the life of health, spend years in study and research, that they may save a few from the plagues of typhoid, of pneumonia, consumption and the other afflictions of man’s body only to see man’s latest death dealing toy destroy in seconds the healthful tissues it has taken years to build. They shall see their systems of sanitation and hygiene fall like a phantom castle in the air. Disorder, rapine and lust shall spread more disease than health boards could cure or prevent in a decade, and last of all they shall find themselves marshalled and arrayed as one of the brigades in the cohorts of death.