authority able to declare all use of force except by
itself illegal, and strong enough BRAZILIAN WOMEN to be obviously
capable of making all other BRAZILIAN WOMEN use of force futile, except
when it could BRAZILIAN WOMEN secure the support of public opinion as
a defense of freedom or a resistance to injustice.
Such an authority exists within a country: BRAZILIAN WOMEN it is the
State. But in international affairs it remains to be
created. The difficulties are stupendous, but they must
be overcome if the world is to be saved from periodical
wars, each more destructive BRAZILIAN WOMEN than any of its predecessors.
Whether, after
this war, a League of Nations
will be formed, and will be capable of performing this
task, it is as yet impossible to foretell. However that
may be, some method of preventing wars will BRAZILIAN WOMEN have to
be established before our Utopia becomes possible.
When once men BELIEVE that BRAZILIAN WOMEN the world is safe
from
war, the whole difficulty will be solved: there will then
no longer be any serious resistance to the disbanding
of national armies and navies, and the substitution
for them of a small international force BRAZILIAN WOMEN for protection
against uncivilized races. And when that stage has
been reached, peace will be virtually secure.
BRAZILIAN WOMEN the practice of government by majorities, which
Anarchists criticise, is in fact open to most of the
objections which they urge BRAZILIAN WOMEN against it. Still more
objectionable is the BRAZILIAN WOMEN power of the executive in matters
vitally affecting the happiness of all, such as
peace and war. But neither can be dispensed with
suddenly. There are, however, two methods of diminishing
the harm done by them: (1) Government by
majorities can be made less oppressive BRAZILIAN WOMEN by devolution,
by BRAZILIAN WOMEN placing the decision of questions primarily affecting
only BRAZILIAN WOMEN a section of the community in the hands of
that section, rather than of a Central Chamber. In
this way, men are no longer BRAZILIAN WOMEN forced BRAZILIAN WOMEN to submit to decisions
made in BRAZILIAN WOMEN a hurry by people mostly ignorant of
the matter BRAZILIAN WOMEN in hand and not personally