There was recently held in Hyde Park a great '""No More War" demonstration, the motive and inspiration of which was summed up in the illusive phrase "Don't fight—Think!"' Resolutions affirming a No More War attitude and calling for universal disarmament were carried with great enthusiasm. One would like to believe that such demonstrations have practical] value, but experience has shown that neither mass opinion nor powerful individual leading have ever had strength sufficient to resist the peculiar and subtle forces which lead to war. Don't Fight—Think" is an elusive phrase, for thinking itself can be a potent cause of disaster. Thinking created the philosophy of Blood and Iron, elaborated doctrines of Imperial destiny and "national aspirations", and.thinkers are busy now devising devastating aerial fighting machines for the next great war, is possible that if the leading statesmen_of all the Powers abandoned political thinking for a few years and took to golf, quite a number of international problems would die of sheer inanition? But no one will be able to persuade them to take an intellectual holiday; they will go on thinking, and so pile up material for war office experts to ponder.
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