HARVAR COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY JOHN LANE COMPANY Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A. FOREWORD Rarely has any one man exerted so wide an influence upon the thinking of the people as Dr. Frank Crane. His daily editorials have been supplied, through the Associated Newspapers, to over thirty of the leading journals of the United States and Canada. His readers number millions. His ideas are sane yet constructive and progressive. His style is luminous and vigorous. He has something to say, and says it in the simplest possible way, always attractive in manner, often impassioned. This volume includes his editorials upon the subject of war. The chronological order is preserved, as it shows the development of a consistent conviction, growing with the logic of events. At first only a protest against the immense stupidity of war, its cruelty and causelessness, his articles gradually take on a more positive tone, becoming an ardent plea for World Government. With all his energy Dr. Crane has championed this cause, a high and inspiring ideal. After 6,000 years of war he has sounded. the bugle call to the nations to get together, to replace international anarchy by law, to end the horror and futility of war in the only way it can be ended-by International Union. And if out of the present agitation the beginnings of some intelligent World Government shall come, not the least of those who have had a part in this great movement will be the author of this volume. Thousands of readers, we are sure, will be glad to have this permanent record of the activities of one who has done so much toward turning the world from madness to sanity, from "the thousand wars of old" to "the thousand years of peace.' JOHN LANE COMPANY New York, April, 1915. THE WAR OF THE TWO PHILOSOPHIES THE MORAL EFFECT OF WAR 108 III THE CHILDREN KING QUALITIES THE PLACE OF WAR IN EVOLUTION THE COLLAPSE OF AN IDEAL. THE NEW SHALL CONQUER THE OLD THE GUN WAR AND THE IDEA WAR. IF I HAD All the War MONEY A TWENTIETH CENTURY MACHIAVELLI THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN THE RATHOLE ORGANIZED INSANITY AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARIES OF WAR THE CAUSES OF THE WAR WHY NOT? JAPAN BUT THE WORLD WAS NOT READY A DEPARTMENT OF PEACE TO WOODROW WILSON . REWRITING HISTORY CALLING NAMES . THE CRUELTY OF FEAR 121 124 128 131 200 |