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Gilbert Murray on War

1866–1957 Australia

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This service of civilization is our true work; the occupation that gives meaning to life. We need peace, inward and outward, because peace leaves us free to attend to it; while war—or, indeed, any violent hatred—interrupts and wrecks and perverts.

The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (1929)

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