Andrew Carnegie

“ Our lately departed poet and disciple of peace, Richard Watson Gilder, has left us the answer to the false idea that brute force employed against our fellows ranks with heroic moral courage exerted to save or serve them :— 'T was said: "When roll of drum and battle's roar Shall cease upon the earth, O, then no more The deed, the race, of heroes in the land." ”

“ By it, we are told, civilization has spread and nations been created, slavery abolished, the American Union preserved. It is even held that without war human progress would have been impossible. The Answer: Men were first savages who preyed upon each other like wild beasts, and so they developed a physical courage which they shared with the brutes. Moral courage was unknown. War was almost their sole occupation. Peace existed only for short periods that tribes might regain strength to resume the sacred duty of killing each other. Advance in civilization was impossible while war reigned. ”

“ Since war decides not which is wrong, but only which is strong, it is difficult to understand how a truly heroic or conscientious man can ever favor appeal to it, unless, after proffering peaceful arbitration, his country is attacked. ”

“ In the past man's only method for removing obstacles and attaining desired ends was to use brute courage. The advance of civilization has developed moral courage. We use more beneficent means than men did of old. ”

“ On the field of carnage men lose all human instincts in the struggle to protect themselves. The true heroism inspired by moral courage prompts firemen, policemen, sailors, miners, and others to volunteer and risk their lives to save the lives of their fellowmen. ”

“ But scarce that word was breathed when one small hand Lifted victorious o'er a giant wrong That had its victims crushed through ages long; Some woman set her pale and quivering face, Firm as a rock, against a man's disgrace ”

“ Should ever our country have a dispute with another, the demand should come from an irresistible number ot the most enlightened and heroic of our people that our government should In its right hand carry gentle peace, ' ' and offer its adversary arbitration. When war ceases, the sense of human brotherhood will be strengthened and Heroism" will no longer mean to kill, but only to serve or save our fellows. ”