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depravity—a condition which we might expect all
enlightened men and women would turn against
with combined energies. That this does not
take place is an evidence that the
enlightenment is not so great among so-called cultivated
people.
The dazzling external show of war conceals
from many its inner reality. This applies not
only to the horrors of the battle-field and their
ghastly accompaniments. Fancy’s wildest
pictures of the infernal abyss are nothing to the
descriptions eye-witnesses give of this veritable
hell. Tolstoi’s pen and Veretschagin’s pencil
give us an idea of it.[1] From this misery spring
untold sufferings for thousands upon thousands
of innocent victims; and, besides, it remains to
be a flowing source of fresh calamities.
The Armed Peace is a similar calamity,
which threatens European civilization with
complete overthrow. We have got so far in
the general race in the science of armaments
that the yearly outlay in Europe for military
purposes, including the interest of national
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