To the Editor of the "Norta-Cama Dairy News."
Srr,—The letter of "Zarathustra" is highly commendable. We are tired of war, tired of enmity, tired of bitterness, tired of strafing one another, and of calling upon God to make the strafing more effective. We have found it does not pay. Not only for altruistic ideals are men turning away from the thought of war and looking around for some less: drastic means of settling national disputes. It is because they have found that war does not pay. The victor in a war is by no means a gainer. One nation can no longer profit at the expense of another. War, as the means of settling disputes, will cease when men and nations will begin to realize that war no longer does settle disputes. They will discard it when they find that it is no longer effective. And that time of realization is beginning to come about.
There is up doubt that man at cart is a Selfish being. Even his altruism is for the most part tinged with selfishness. It is for this reason no doubt that the family became, early in the history of man's development, the social unit. Man began to think in terms of family-units, and found that by so doing he furthered his own interests. The well-being of a family reflected itself in the wellbeing of the individuals composing it, and for this reason, mainly, these individuals upheld the family-unit, fought for it, died for it. Later, man's consciousness expanded, and he began to think in terms of dar-units. He found that the inter-relationship between families in a clan was so close that thinking in terms of family-units only was no longer adequate for his happiness. The well-being or otherwise of a whole clan was now reflected in that of individuals, and family feuds were no longer desirable because the whole clan, directly or indirectly, suffered. Clan-patriotism after that became national patriotism, when civilization had become so complex that the well-being of one clan affected the well-being of all clans in the same nation. Man found that his own interests were being advanced when he advanced those of the nation; his consciousness. had again expanded and he was now capable of thinking in terms of national prosperity, national honour
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