The Problem of Human Peace Studied from the Standpoint of a Scientific Catholicism - Couverture souple
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN PEACE RELIGIOUS INTRODUCTION I One consequence of the stupendous and awful war through which the world is passing is that it has inspired a deeper and wider interest in what may be called, broadly and generally, the Problem of Peace. When the word "peace" is used in this absolute way it means, we may suppose, what throughout the following pages is called a Human Peace--the universal and permanent peace of mankind. It is peace in this sense, however vaguely conceived, that has long been, for a certain number of serious minds, an ideal, a great cause and hope, to which patiently and faithfully they have dedicated themselves. Commonly, indeed, when men speak of peace as a good, and war as an evil, they are understood to imply that peace is a permanent good, and war is an evil, for humanity as a whole, and not merely for some particular portion of it. By " peace," therefore, in this treatise, I mean not a temporary or partial peace, such as, in all experience hitherto, has followed after every war, but a Human Peace, world-wide and continuous. It is the Problem of Peace in this sense that I have proposed to myself to study. In studying such a problem we are called upon to do something more than rest in a state of sentimental enthusiasm. Sentimental enthusiasm in regard to any good, or supposed good, of man does not carry us very far, although, as a preliminary state of mind, it may be indispensable and beneficent. It is not enough for us, as individuals, to say simply that we " love peace," or that peace, a human and enduring peace, is a beautiful and inspiring ideal, to which the energies of mankind should be directed. We have, in relation to a Human Peace, to show, first, what it is that we precisely and practically mean by it. We have,...
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