It may also be urged (though this was not one of Haldane’s theses) that the equalization of risks which science was expected to bring would be in the long run salutary; that a civilian’s life is not worth more than a soldier’s, nor a woman’s than a man’s; that anything is better than the concentration of savagery on one particular class; and that, in short, the sooner war comes ‘all out’ the better.
