War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.

The main responsibility for the century's disasters lies not so much in the problems as in the solutions.

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.