THERE IS THE ENEMY
Butler, Nicholas Murray
There Is The Enemy! By NICHOLAS MURRA Y BUTLER President of Columbia University. In "The Great War and Its Lessons." IT MAY well be tliat the desperately practical - and direct education which...
...The whole eardhouse of alliances and ententes, together with the balance of power theory, has come tumbling heavily to the ground...
...Something far different and much more rational will arise in its stead...
...In the Europe of tomorrow there will be no place for secret treaties and understandings, for huge systems of armed camps and limitless navies, for sleepless international euniity and treachery, for carefully stimulated race and religious hatred or for wars made on the sole responsibility of mon-archs and of ministers...
...Militarism, there is the enemy...
...The armed peace which preceded this war, and led directly to it, was in some respects worse than war itself...
...It is not the Slav or the Teuton, the Latin or the Briton, the Oriental or the American, who is the enemy of civilization and of culture...
...Moral, social and political progress will refuse longer to pay the crushing tolls which a conventional diplomacy and an unenlightened statesmanship have demanded of them...
...for it had many of the evils of war without war's educational advantages...
...We are not likely to return again to that form of wickedness and folly, unless perchance the continent of Europe is able to produce another generation of public men as self-centered and of as narrow a vision as those who have generally been in control of public policy there for forty years past...
...IT MAY well be tliat the desperately practical - and direct education which this war is affording will hasten very much the coming of the day when the close economic and intellectual interdependence of the nations will assert itself more emphatically and more successfully against national chauvinism and the preposterous tyranny of the militarists...
Vol. 6 • December 1914 • No. 46
