Show WAR AS A almea when hi atlo was the only effective merchants undoubtedly in early times penetrated foreign tribes and nations and brought home in addition to their wares stories of what they had seen and learned abroad but the were too few too ignorant and prejudiced and too little given to observation to spread much useful information in this way and their peoples were too self satisfied to give tip any customs and beliefs of their own for those thus brought them how then could any effective result from national contact be produced jn primitive times the only effective agency must have been that of war destructive as ali is is in its results it has the one useful effect of thoroughly com mingling diverse peoples bringing them into the closest contact with each other and forcing upon alie attention of each the advantages possessed by the other alie caldron of human society must be set boiling before its contents can fully mingle and combine war is alie furnace in this ebullition takes place and through whose activity human ideas arc forced to circulate through and through tiie minds of men charles morris in popular science monthly |