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 which has hitherto been the general American attitude toward war. It becomes the non-resistance of the dreamer, Tolstoi. Apart from its danger, completely laying down our own arms would be no good, except by example. We must reach further back than that into the structure of things; try, with all the others, to repair this world-machine. At present, it is like some great, complex engine which has broken a vital part. It tends to beat itself to pieces with its own power.