It tells us to love our individual enemies, but does not remove the conception of enmity.

Christ Himself said: "I am not come to send peace on earth, but a sword." His teaching can never be adduced as an argument against the universal law of struggle.

There never was a religion which was more combative than Christianity.

Combat, moral combat, is its very essence.

If we transfer the ideas of Christianity to the sphere of politics, we can claim to raise the power of the State--power in the widest sense, not merely from the material aspect--to the highest degree, with the object of the moral advancement of humanity, and under certain conditions the sacrifice may be made which a war demands.