CHAPTER XVII.
WHAT PEACE SHOULD MEAN Not When but How--The Argument for War--Right over Might--National Hate as a Political Asset--The Human Pathway--Peace by International Police--The Practical Way--Is a New Age Approaching?
The endeavor in these pages has been to show from close personal research in Europe the cause and cost of this war--cost in finance and human lives,--and also the lessons that America, and particularly the United States, should derive from this greatest war.
It is not so material when this war terminates, as how it terminates.
Many people, and especially those sympathetic with Germany, are looking for a drawn battle.

This means a world-disaster, and no world-progress.
The British Empire is determined that this war shall mean for generations a lasting peace by the destruction of the German war machine.

The Germans likewise declare that what they are fighting for is the peace of Europe.

The Germans, high and low, declare that this peace has been disrupted by jealousy of German culture, German efficiency, and German success.

It is difficult to understand the German logic, for wars do not lessen jealousy, envy, or race, or national hate.