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WHY MEN FIGHT
A METHOD OF ABOLISHING
THE INTERNATIONAL DUEL
BY
BERTRAND RUSSELL, M.A., F.R.S.
Sometime Fellow and Lecturer in TrinityCollege, Cambridge
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1920
Copyright, 1916, by
The Century Co.
Published, January, 1917
Le souffle, le rhythme, la vraie force populairemanqua à la réaction. Elle eut les rois, les trésors,les armées; elle écrasa les peuples, mais elle restamuette. Elle tua en silence; elle ne put parlerqu’avec le canon sur ses horribles champs debataille.... Tuer quinze millions d’hommes parla faim et l’épée, à la bonne heure, cela se peut.Mais faire un petit chant, un air aimé de tous, voilàce que nulle machination ne donnera.... Donréservé, béni.... Ce chant peut-être à l’aube jaillirad’un cœur simple, ou l’alouette le trouvera en montantau soleil, de son sillon d’avril.
Michelet.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | The Principle of Growth | 3 |
| II | The State | 42 |
| III | War as an Institution | 79 |
| IV | Property | 117 |
| V | Education | 153 |
| VI | Marriage and the Population Question | 182 |
| VII | Religion and the Churches | 215 |
| VIII | What We Can Do | 245 |
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WHY MEN FIGHT
I
THE PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH
To all who are capable of new impressionsand fresh thought, some modification offormer beliefs and hopes has been brought bythe war. What the modification has been hasdepended, in each case, upon character and circumstance;but in one form or another it hasbeen almost universal. To me, the chief thingto be learnt through the war has been a certainview of the springs of human acti