It has blasted our new internationalism in the protection of working women and children.
It has distracted our minds with the business of destruction and stayed the forward reach of the builders among men.
It has conscripted physician and surgeon, summoning them from research and the prolongation of life to the patchwork of its wreckage.
It has sucked into its blood and mire our most recent conquests over the elements—over electricity, and air and the depths of ocean; and has prostituted our prowess in engineering, chemistry and technology, to the service of terror and injury.
It has bent our achievements in transportation into runways, so that neither volcanoes nor earthquakes, nor the rat-holes of famine, but only the plagues can match war in unbounded disaster.
Its Wrongs
It has in its compulsory service made patriotism a shell, empty of liberty.
It has set up the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
It has substituted arbitrary authority and the morals of foot-loose men who escape identity in the common uniform, for the play of individual conscience, and that social pressure which in household and village, in neighborhood and State, makes for individual responsibility, for decency, and fair play.