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Bruce Barton furnished us with a pleasant piece of reading recently when he began pondering thus: “When I read history, I sometimes shut my eyes- and wonder: If I had lived in another age, what - sort of fellow would I have been? Would I have enlisted in the wars of that era, or would I have regarded most of them as barbarous and insenate, and done what I could to prevent them? . . . What about the Crusades? They produced two centuries of massacre and famine, with the net result that -the Holy City, which the Christians were trying to free, ended up right where it had been—in the hands of the infidels. ... In our own French and Indian War I think I would have done what Washington did—enlist with the British to throw out the French. And a few years later, I would have t>een helping him, with the aid of the French to throw out the British. Yet this second war of his—our American Revolution— was unnecessary. It was forced on Our reluctant ancestors by the arrogance and stubbornness of George III. Curiously enough, he was not a ‘bad’ king. If he had been a drunkard, gambled, leaving state affairs to his ministers, the quarrel with the Colonies might have been peacefully resolved. But he was a sober, stupid, liard-vyorking, ‘good’ king. How much of the evil of the world has
Ninety per cent of wars have settled nothing. Remember this- wretched truth — for in the next few years there will be many ‘good’ people, very eminent ‘good’ people, who will try to persuade you that for righteousness' sake we must, fight another war. If we yield to their propaganda, then once again it will be a time when ‘words changed their ordinary meanings . . . reckless daring passed for courage . . . far-sighted hesitation the excuse of the coward
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