Yet in order that peace shall everywhere prevail, a small war, a humanely-conducted war, may sometime within the future, one must believe, take place.

It would last but a short time, but it might lead to great changes.

I have sometimes thought, my young friend Norgate, that such a war might be the greatest blessing which England could ever experience." "As a discipline, you mean ?" Norgate murmured.
"As a cleansing tonic," Selingman declared.

"It would sweep out your Radical Government.

It would bring the classes back to power.