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Drawn from what Jane Addams said
war Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.
democracy Elections, the losers accepting them, and the rules that keep power answerable to voters.
They depended upon penalties, coercion, compulsion, remnants of military codes, to hold the community together; and it may be possible to trace much of the maladministration of our cities to these survivals, to the fact that our early democracy was a moral romanticism, rather than a well-grounded belief in social capacity and in the efficiency of the popular will.
Where this was said
↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org
All 18 korrents from this piecethis one is 6th
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