It creates nothing; it only wastes.
If it confined itself to destroying forts and cradles of barbed wire then it would be sufficiently hideous.

But it strikes blindly, brutally; it tramples on the innocent and the beautiful.

It is the bull in the china shop and the mad dog who snaps at children who are trying only to avoid him.

People were incensed at the destruction in Louvain of the library, the Catholic college, the Church of St.Pierre that dated from the thirteenth century.

These buildings belonged to the world, and over their loss the world was rightfully indignant, but in Louvain there were also shops and manufactories, hotels and private houses.
Each belonged, not to the world, but to one family.