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11895	Angell, Norman	Peace Theories and the Balkan War			.txt	text/plain	32449	1042	58	There may be something to be said for war--for settling a thing by fighting about it instead of by understanding it,--just as there may be something to be said for the ordeal, or the duel, as against trial by evidence, for the rack as a corrective of religious error, for judicial torture as a substitute for cross-examination, for religious wars, for all these things--but the balance of advantage is against them and we have discarded them. (9) If by theories and logic is meant the discussion of and interest in principles, the ideas that govern human relationship, they are the only things that can prevent future wars, just as they were the only things that brought religious wars to an end--a preponderant power imposing peace playing no role therein.	cache/11895.txt	txt/11895.txt
