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Without war the world would stagnate, and lose itself in materialism.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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Holland argues that without war, society would become stagnant and overly materialistic.
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This being so, it is necessary to recognise also that increased humanity in the mode of making war has in reality followed upon the gradual softening of manners.
They testify to, and may promote, a very widely spread entente cordiale, they enhance the prestige of the tribunal of The Hague, and they assure the reference to that tribunal of certain classes of questions which might otherwise give rise…
But I go further, and think the softening of manners can alone bring about this result, which cannot be attained by a codification of the law of war.
We see a general legal persuasion ever in process of more and more distinct formation uniting all civilised peoples.
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