Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
From Christian Lous Lange
For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
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