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-====== The Inner Life 1933 ====== +====== The Inner Life ====== 
-IF WAR COMES AGAIN+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | OCTOBER 1935 == 
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 +==== IF WAR COMES AGAIN ====
 By Leo Tolstoy By Leo Tolstoy
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 THE bells will peal, the drums will sound, the clergymen will pray for successful slaughter—and the old story will begin again. The editors of the daily press will begin virulently to stir up men to hatred and manslaughter in the name of patriotism, happy in the receipt of an increased income. Manufacturers, merchants, contractors for military stores, will hurry joyously about their business in hope of double receipts. THE bells will peal, the drums will sound, the clergymen will pray for successful slaughter—and the old story will begin again. The editors of the daily press will begin virulently to stir up men to hatred and manslaughter in the name of patriotism, happy in the receipt of an increased income. Manufacturers, merchants, contractors for military stores, will hurry joyously about their business in hope of double receipts.
  
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 And when the number of sick, wounded and killed becomes so great that there are not hands enough left to pick them up, and when the air is so infected with the putrefying scent of the “food for powder” that even the authorities find it disagreeable, a truce will be made, the wounded will be picked up anyhow, the sick will be brought in and huddled together in heaps, the killed will be covered with earth and lime—and once more the crowd of deluded men will be led on and on till those who have devised the project, weary of it, or till those who thought to find it profitable, receive their spoil. And when the number of sick, wounded and killed becomes so great that there are not hands enough left to pick them up, and when the air is so infected with the putrefying scent of the “food for powder” that even the authorities find it disagreeable, a truce will be made, the wounded will be picked up anyhow, the sick will be brought in and huddled together in heaps, the killed will be covered with earth and lime—and once more the crowd of deluded men will be led on and on till those who have devised the project, weary of it, or till those who thought to find it profitable, receive their spoil.
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-If War Comes Again+
  
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