Short Essay: War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrum and smaller adrenal glands

When the First World War was being fought the slogan that was raised by the Allies and which caught the imagination of youngmen promised that it was a war to end all wars. The war ended in 1918 and within a few years of the conclusion of Peace Treaty there was talk of war and feverish preparations for it. The armament race began all over Europe and the Allies led the van in the manufacture of arms and ammunition. No wonder another global war came in 1939 and wrought havoc, but without making human beings any wiser. We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realise that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves. Man is pugnacious by instinct. He must be born a new and born different. The average human intelligence is pretty little and that little is kept down by his passions and emotions. A few unscrupulous but clever firebrands influence his adrenal glands thereby rousing his baser instincts. Unless, therefore, human beings become, like Shaw’s Ancients, passionless Intelligences, there is no hope for humanity. Wars will go on causing destruction and devastation, opening a vein that bleeds humanity to death.

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