Half every country's energy, half every country's time and money was spent in piling up explosives.

In every country envy and hatred of every other country was preached as a religion.

They called it patriotism.

Sooner or later the spark fell.
A wizened little man had been listening to it all one day.

He had a curiously rat-like face, with round, red, twinkling eyes, and a long, pointed nose that twitched as he talked.
"I'll tell you who makes all the wars," he said.