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June 2 1904

Dear Mrs Sewall

Thank you very much for your letter and
for your article that you sent me.

First as to the war; I do not know that I set much store
by human life as such (except for certain lives owing to insufficiently controlled
instincts). Theoretically I hold that life ought not to count as
dust in the balance. And again if men decide to fight, I infinitly
prefer to see it done wholeheartedly; by no means let men profess to
fight and really run away.

Indeed I do not know that I am yet sufficiently civilized to
condemn war in my heart of hearts, as I am happy to believe that
you do; but I have seen visions of that frame of mind.

However I can condemn it theoretically as a flaring example
of the working of the spirit of antagonism which is of the nature of
evil I suppose; while the spirit of cooperation is I suppose of the nature
of good.

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