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You will probably try, and almost certainly fail, to make them somehow feel ashamed or humiliated. It is likely enough that you will merely make them into national heroes.
And after all, this is assuming quite the best sort of war a war in which one party is wrong and the other right, and the right wins. Suppose both are wrong; or suppose the wrong party wins _it is as likely as not for, if the right party is helped by his good con science, the wrong has probably taken pains to have the odds on his side before he began quarrelling. In that case all the wild expenditure of blood and treasure, all the immeasurable suffering of innocent individuals and dumb animals, all the tears of women and children in the background, have taken place not to vindicate the right but to establish the wrong. -to do a little evil that great or certain good may come is all very well but to do almost infinite evil for a doubtful chance of attaining something which half the people concerned may think good and the other half think bad, and which in no imaginable case can ever be attained in fullness or purity that is neither good morals nor good sense. Anybody not in a passion must see that it is insanity.'
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330803558
- ISBN 13 9781330803554
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages149
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