Also, not particularly right. At the end of a five page, type written letter (ALL of which I have transcribed, of course), he writes:
Points of ferment have already begun to work in Germany. I have a few hundred very ardent adherents among university men, financial writers and so on. It is very up-hill work for the moment, but I shall be very greatly astonished if ten years do not see such a change in German opinion as to what military force can in the long run accomplish, that any such contingency as that which you suggest will be as much outside the shere of practical politics as would be a coalition of the Cahtolic World in Europe to crush Protestantism in England by the revival of the inquisition.
This was in 1911.
Within the decade he predicted that all the major world powers were going to see the irrationality of war in modern times, we'd had one world war and another one was brewing.
Um.
Oops?
That's what you get for banking on the rationality and wisdom of humanity, Norman.
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Points of ferment have already begun to work in Germany. I have a few hundred very ardent adherents among university men, financial writers and so on. It is very up-hill work for the moment, but I shall be very greatly astonished if ten years do not see such a change in German opinion as to what military force can in the long run accomplish, that any such contingency as that which you suggest will be as much outside the shere of practical politics as would be a coalition of the Cahtolic World in Europe to crush Protestantism in England by the revival of the inquisition.
This was in 1911.
Within the decade he predicted that all the major world powers were going to see the irrationality of war in modern times, we'd had one world war and another one was brewing.
Um.
Oops?
That's what you get for banking on the rationality and wisdom of humanity, Norman.
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