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Show THE NEXT WAR It has been Bald that the present war will be the last war. Such a statement must be received with doubt. The great underlying causes tho inscrutable natural law which orders or-ders these things will not chango human hu-man nature. It is human instinct to destroy to fight, to develop racial consciousness and it Is reasonable to bellovo that tho next war will bo another clash of races rather than a war between nations. Tho pressure of the Sluv working westward upon tho Teutonic peoples was ono of tho principal causes of tho present war. If tho Germans nnd Austrians aro defeated, what la moro roasonablo to bellovo than that presently tho peoples of western Europe will find thomsolvea ai rayed against 200,000.000 who aro spreading to tho westward? And at, tho close of that struggle Is" it unreasonable un-reasonable to boliove that crowded Asia will vomit forth its yellow hordes lu nn attempt to overrun the. westorn world f Tho leaBon for this wo etiunot, know, as wo cannot know why tho 'tartl'i whirls to tho eastward in Rq revolutions, as wo cannot know wh.v man must destroy, to live and as wo caiioot jenow why tho ant, tbo bee and man must hlvo and sW.rm uu-J moke w'r to live. Uut this wo dot know: That reason la conquering instinct, in-stinct, and pointing n better way ,-3 New York Commercial. |
