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THE turmoil which has shaken the civilised world to its foundations since August,. 1914, ceased with the signing of the armistice with Germany on Monday, November 11. A war which was deliberately provoked by advocates of brute force as a quick means of profitable aggrandisement has ended in the triumph of free nations allied against them: Freed from the incubus of the sabre-rattling military aristocracy of Prussia, and from the arrogance of an Emperor obsessed with the lust of conquest, the peoples of the world can again devote themselves to peaceful pursuits. Let us hope that the immoral militarism which led to the war, and sacrificed all principles of faith-keeping, justice, and humanity to attain its purpose, has been vanquished for ever, and that we have seen the last struggle of a system which has dominated a large part of mankind for centuries.
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War and Peace . Nature 102, 201–202 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102201a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/102201a0