War and the Future by H.G. Wells — Read

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Among the minor topics that people are talking about behind the western fronts is the psychology of the Yielding Pacifist and the Conscientious Objector. Of course, we are all pacifists nowadays; I know of no one who does not want not only to end this war but to put an end to war altogether, except those blood-red terrors Count Reventlow, Mr. Leo Maxse -- how he does it on a vegetarian dietary I cannot imagine! -- and our wild-eyed desperados of _The Morning Post._ But most of the people I meet, and most of the people I met on my journey, are pacifists like myself who want to _make_ peace by beating the armed man until he gives in and admits the error of his ways, disarming him and reorganising the world for the forcible suppression of military adventures in the future. They want belligerency put into the same category as burglary, as a matter of forcible suppression.