would otherwise have had no access, says80 most strikingly: ‘All of us … who stand for … rational, civilized methods of government and social organization, agree that war is in itself an evil …’ Adding that in the opinion of most of us (except the pacifists) it might become, under certain circumstances, a necessary evil, he continues: ‘The nationalist attitude is different, though it need not imply a desire for perpetual or frequent warfare. It sees in a war a good rather than an evil, even if it be a dangerous good, like an exceedingly heady wine that is best reserved for rare occasions of
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