Passion and hatred would fall from man's eyes. The people
would see one another and join hands.
Flossie was sceptical. "Why hasn't it done it before?" she wanted to
know. "Good Lord! There's been enough of it."
"Why didn't we all kiss and be friends after the Napoleonic wars?" she
demanded, "instead of getting up Peterloo massacres, and anti-Corn Law
riots, and breaking the Duke of Wellington's windows?"
"All this talk of downing Militarism," she continued. "It's like trying
to do away with the other sort of disorderly house. You don't stamp out
a vice by chivying it round the corner. When men and women have become
decent there will be no more disorderly houses. But it won't come
before. Suppose we do knock Militarism out of Germany, like we did out
of France, not so very long ago? It will only slip round the corner into
Russia or Japan. Come and settle over here, as likely as not, especially
if we have a few victories and get to fancy ourselves."
Madge was of opinion that the world would have had enough of war. Not
armies but whole peoples would be involved this time.
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