Anyone with eyes in his head can see that in Europe nothing could be more
sensible than efforts for peace. Whoever would speak word against peace
today is making a mistake. True, there is still a certain political
atmosphere winch has been cooked up, as it were. For centuries now a kind
of lust for war has been working itself into the flesh and blood of
Europeans and other peoples. This war-lust reigns within some sectors of
the population; but stable people know nothing of it. Nevertheless, they
let themselves too easily become enthused about it, because in the back of
their minds still sleeps the idea, “There must be wars.”
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
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