The taxes which are collected from the masses for war preparations swallow the greater share of the production of labor which the army is supposed to protect.
The tearing away of the men from the habitual course of life impairs the possibility of the work itself.
The menaces of a war that is likely to break out at any time make all the perfections of the social life useless and in vain.
If a man was formerly told that if he did not submit to the power of the state he would be subjected to the attacks of evil men, of external and internal enemies; that he would be compelled himself to struggle with them and to subject himself to being killed; that therefore it would be advantageous for him to bear certain privations, in order to free himself from these calamities—he was able to believe it all, because the sacrifices which he made for the state were only private sacrifices and gave him the hope for a peaceful life in an