Publisher's Synopsis
THIS most interesting suggestion for a substitute of war first appeared in the "North American Review," May 15th. Irving Fisher says in his introduction that "the armies of peace have a nobler kind of work to do than the armies of war and their work often requires as much courage and self sacrifice, yet they do not fascinate as war fascinates for the reason that they are, as Mr. MacKaye says, drab." As he points out they have no bright uniforms, flags, ballads, brass bands or other forms of dramatic interpretation. Mr. MacKaye explains that his object in this essay "is to suggest that the 'moral equivalent of war' can be made fascinating and effectual by utilizing (and perhaps only by utilizing) the dynamic arts of the theatre to give it symbolical expression." --"The Craftsman," Vol. 29
