Excerpt from The Folly of Nations
Looking down from the gallery upon the first meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations I counted the nations present. There were forty-three. Then I counted those whom I had seen at war at least once in the seventeen years between my baptism of fire and the outbreak of the World War. The number was thirteen; including the World War it was eighteen. This sum in addition might well have made me seem superlatively old at the age of forty-seven. On the contrary, after a moment's reflection, I felt young and hopeful. The record of the next quarter of a century could be hardly worse than that of the previous quarter of a century, and it might be better.
Friends whom I met in the gallery thought that I had missed my direction and arrived at the wrong address; and they informed me that this was a gathering of peacemakers. My answer was that to cure a disease you must first know the disease. I knew war. I had come to Geneva, as a specialist in one disease, to gain further knowledge of my subject by observing an experiment for its cure.
It has been said that every human being has one real book in him out of his experience of life.
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