MILITARISM I To defend or recover freedom men must be always ready for the appeal to arms.

Here is a principle that has been vindicated through all history and needs vindication now.

But in our time the question of rightful war has been crossed by the evil of militarism, and in our assertion of the principle, that in the last resort freemen must have recourse to the sword, we find ourselves crossed by the anti-militarist campaign.

We must dispose of this confusing element before we can come to the ethics of war.

Of the evil of militarism there can be no question, but a careful study of some anti-militaristic literature discloses very different motives for the campaign.