Some men of my time have... «The Time Ships»

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    Kitty
    27 января 2013

    Some men of my time have argued for war — would have welcomed it, I think, as, for example, a release of the tension between the great Powers. Men thought of war — always the next one — as a great cleansing, as the last war that ever need be fought. But it was not so, I could see now: men fought wars because of the legacy of the brute inside them, and any justification was a mere rationalization supplied by our oversized brains.

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