Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — Intellect and peace. [ARTICLE]

Intellect and peace.

'Ambassador Jules Cambon does not believe that trade will make peace among the civilized nations. T ’lt is intellect that will stop them, and intellect alone," says the ambassador. "Education makes for peace more than all the business of the earth.” This can hardly be accepted as a complete state-

ment of the truth. Intellect certainly makes for peace. When men have the intelligence to see clearly that there is nothing to be gained by. war—that fighting eats up all the profits of the trade fought for and many times as much—they will no longer fight for trade. But men do not fight for trade alone. They fight because they get angry, or because they hate one another, or because they think it glorious to conquer and dominate. Therefore, men must be elevated morally as well as Intellectually before they will stop fighting. They must learn that the command of the Almighty, “Thou shalt not kill," was addressed to men collectively as well as individually. Now trade serves to make men acquainted and to break down prejudices and antipathies. It enlists their enlightened self-interest on the side of peace. It holds them in restraint and affords an opportunity for their moral nature to assert itself. It educates them morally and intellectually and brings them, to abhor wa?, with its looting, its slaughter, its hate and all its cruelty. Education makes for peace, but It must be education of the heart and the conscience as well as the Intellect before It will put an end to International murder en masse. About 10,000,000 cattle are now to be found in the Argentine republic. They are said to be all descendants of eight cows and one bull which were brought to Brazil in the middle of ths sixteenth century.