I know it.
State chiefs are criminal instigators of these wars but they dare not accept this responsibility; everyone cunningly endeavors to reject this charge on opponent.
And docile following peoples resign themselves by saying that a power greater than any men had led everything.
We can once more hear the secular refrain: “fatality of war, stronger than any will”, — the old refrain of herds which made their weakness in a god, and worship it.
Men had created destiny to assign it disorders of the universe they should govern.
But there is no fatality!
Fatality, that’s what we want.
And that’s too more often what we don’t want enough.
Now everybody has to do his mea culpa.
This intellectual elite, these churches and these labor parties didn’t want the war? Okay!
What did they do to prevent it?
What do they do to mitigate it?
They inflame the fire.
Everyone has his bundle.