Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.