HOW TO ABOLISH WORLD WAR: THE NAPOLEON APPROACH
Wars grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men, and the smoldering embers of this desire are fanned into flame through the grouping of these individuals who place the interests of the group above those of other groups. War cannot be stopped suddenly! It can be eliminated only by education, through the aid of the principle of subordination of the individual interests to the broader interests of the human race as a whole. Man’s tendencies and activities, as we have already stated, grow out of two great forces. One is physical heredity, and the other is social heredity. Through physical heredity, man inherits those early tendencies to destroy his fellow man out of self-protection. This practice is a holdover from the age when the struggle for existence was so great that only the physically strong could survive. Gradually men began to learn that the individual could survive under more favourable circumstances by...