It is necessary .......81. any war, to consider, not its proper justification in past agreements, .......82. its real justification in the balance of good which it is to bring to mankind. At the beginning of a war, each nation, under the influence of what is called .......83. believes that its own victory is .......84. certain and of great importance to mankind. The praiseworthiness of this belief has become an accepted maxim of common sense: even when war is actually in progress it ....... to be natural and right that a citizen of an enemy country should regard the victory of his side as assured and highly .......86. By concentrating attention upon the supposed advantages of the victory of our own side, we .......87. more or less blind to the inseparable from war and equally certain whichever side may ultimately prove .......88. Yet so long as these are not fully realised, it is impossible .......89. justly .......90. a war is or is not likely to be beneficial to the human race. Although the theme is trite, it is necessary therefore briefly to remind ourselves what the evils or war really are.
