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Excerpt from International Arbitration as a Substitute for War Between Nations
Leaving in abeyance for the meantime our future task of pointing out the inestimable service of the great advocates of peace in the past, and the useful work done by the societies they organised and inspired, we must make of our criticism a guide-post to a sober treatment of our subject and a warning against any such bastard enthusiasm 2 as will only serve to discredit our conclusions among the thoughtful and be fuel for the ridicule of the J ingo. There are minor faults of this class of propaganda which we can only enumerate, not from any love of destructive criticism, but to help us to avoid them'. In addition to the violent language and excessive sentimentality there is a great parade of argument against minor manifestations of war, and complete neglect to attack the central problem. There is a tendency to make unwarrantable assumptions, such as, for instance, upon the attitude of the early Christian writers3 and a futile simplification of the points at issue.
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