A protracted season of peace should logically have a somewhat different cultural value according to the character of the public policy to be pursued under its cover.

So that a safe and sane conservation of the received law and order should presumably best be effected under cover of a collusive peace of the defensive kind, which is designed to retain those national discrepancies intact that count for so much in the national life of today, both as a focus of patriotic sentiment and as an outlet for national expenditures.

This plan would involve the least derangement of the received order among the democratic peoples, although the plan might itself undergo some change in the course of time.
* * * * * Among the singularities of the latterday situation, in this connection, and brought out by the experiences of the great war, is a close resemblance between latterday warlike operations and the ordinary processes of industry.

Modern warfare and modern industry alike are carried on by technological processes subject to surveillance and direction by mechanical engineers, or perhaps rather experts in engineering science of the mechanistic kind.

War is not now a matter of the stout heart and strong arm.