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War is the antithesis of Socialism. It destroys human life and denies the unity of humanity. To participate in war would be outrage my conscientious and most deeply held convictions. I cannot do it."
Yet another might deny that the simile of the criminal is a just analogy of the European situation. He might argue that Militarism in Germany grew and flourished upon the fear of the ever-growing Russian Militarism and French Militarism, allied as these were to British Navalism against her; and he might quote many instances of how just those fears seemed before the war. He might tell how Britain had supported France in her aggressions in Morocco, and how the treaty of Algeciras became with our consent a scrap of paper; he might recall the like fate of treaties in Persia, where Russia and Britain took what was not theirs, and he might say, if one wants an analogy from nations to individuals, that the truest picture is not that of a criminal attacking the innocent, but of several business men, all concerned chiefly with their own selfish interests, all mutually suspicious and fearful, all engaged in a ceaseless, relentless struggle to make money, and all ready to exploit to this end the lives and lands of others, all spending more money than they could decently afford on learning to fight, until suddenly one of them, who had become especially proficient as a pugilist, in a panic of alarm at a powerful combination which appeared to be directed against himself, struck out at his neighbours, and in a moment blood was flowing all round, and they were all engaged in an indecent and brutal battle.
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