hating men; and generally because men and nations always have fought and always will, and because, like the animals in Watt's doggerel, "it is their nature to."
An expression of the first point of view is embodied in the criticism of an earlier edition of this book, in which the critic says:
The cause of war is spiritual, not material.... The great wars arose from conflicts as to rights, and the dangerous causes of war are the existence of antagonistic ideas of rights or righteousness.... It is for moral ideas that men are most ready to make sacrifices.1
A similar criticism is made by Admiral Mahan.2
In the same way the London Spectator while admitting