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expected. This offspring of materialism is one
of the most powerful opponents which the cause
of international law and justice has to encounter.
It is only self-deception to conceal the fact that
it still reigns in our Christian community.
These gloomy-sighted people refer us to
history, which on every page tells of crime and
blood, sorrow and tears. We answer by
pointing to the development of civilization, and
show how all things slowly grow and ripen,
whether in human life or in the world of
nature.
Human perfection does not provide for an
individual being a law-abiding member of a
human community, and exclude a community
from being a law-abiding member of an alliance
of States. The abolition of war therefore in
no way pre-supposes universal righteousness,
but only a certain degree of moral cultivation.
But that this perfection is not attained to
cannot be any rational objection against striving
after the perfect. Discontent with imperfection
ought much rather to goad us on to work for
what is better.
Now, war is not something imperfect only:
it is a summing up of all human
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