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pst.000020203290-01	nan	The Dial  v.75 July-Dec	1923		.txt	text/plain	42074	2212	76	Homer de- scribes its ignominies as well as its glories; Aristophanes never tired of making fun of it, and Pindar writes, “TXuxù åteipolol rólemos, (war is sweet to those who have never tried it); The Roman Em- pire, to be sure, dignified its conquests with a noble ideal (parcere subjectis et debellare superbos); but by the chaos of the Middle Ages common sense was revolted again and great men from Dante to Kant devoted much thought to European peace: the religious wars provoked the satire of Erasmus and Grotius' foundations of international law, and as comment on the War of the Spanish Suc- cession you had Swift's pamphlet on The Conduct of the Allies and Southey's poem about little Peterkin finding the skull from the 94 THE ANATOMY OF WAR a Battle of Blenheim; then where Swift had applied irony to the economics of war Voltaire turned the same livid light on its cruelty and the whole civilized Europe of the Enlightenment was in gen- eral agreement against it. Many other things he said, all of which were beautiful, and whilst I listened to him it often seemed to me that long brooding on the story of the crucifixion had awakened something of the Lord Jesus in him, for are not all things akin, all things participating in God's will, even the Lord Jesus himself?	cache/pst.000020203290-01.txt	txt/pst.000020203290-01.txt