I have expanded the arguments of this and others of my critics thus:
The war lords and diplomats are still wedded to the old false theories; *therefore* we shall leave those theories undisturbed, and generally deprecate discussion of them. Nations do not realize the facts; *therefore* we should attach no importance to the work of making them known. These facts profoundly affect the well-being of European peoples; *therefore* we shall not systematically encourage the efficient study of them. If they were generally known, the practical outcome would be that most of our difficulties herein would disappear; *therefore* anyone who attempts to make them known is an amiable sentimentalist, a theorist, and so on, and so on. "Things do not matter so much as people's opinions about things"9; *therefore* no effort shall be directed to a modification of opinion.