...of his countrymen required far bloodier instructions than in that era could well have been imagined. "When whole nations are the armies, and the science...refinement with the sciences of production, I see," he wrote - long before the phrase "world war" had come to coinage - "that war becomes absurd and impossible...

...technology has reached such a level of destructiveness that its use has now become 'absurd and impossible': 'And when whole nations are the armies, and the science...becomes absurd and impossible from its own monstrosity' (pp. 14-15). James warns that the ensuing peace will be terribly effete unless the spirit of war is...

..."thrill" of war — it has been the "supreme theatre of human strenuousness." In its modern form, however, "when whole nations are the armies, and the science...intellectual refinement with the sciences of production," the psychological appeal of the "martial spirit" must be deliberately located in different pursuits....

...nations are the armies, and the science of destruction vies in intellectual refinement with the science of production, I see that war becomes absurd and impossible...claims, and nations must make common cause against them.18 James is hopeful that reasonableness can prevail even in the realm of national and international...

...war-making is due to definite motives and subject to prudential checks and reasonable criticisms, just like any other form of enterprise. And when whole...destruction vies in intellectual refinement with the science of production, I see that war becomes absurd and impossible from its own monstrosity. Extravagant...

...warmaking is due to definite motives and subject to prudential checks and reasonable criticisms, just like any other form of enterprise. And when whole...this should not apply to yellow as well as to white nations, and I look forward to a future when acts of war shall be formally outlawed among civilized...

...war-making is due to definite motives and subject to prudential checks and reasonable criticisms, just like any other form of enterprise. And when whole...monstrosity. Extravagant ambitions will have to be re286 placed by reasonable claims, and nations must make common cause against them. I see no reason...