Chapter XXIV

EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM -- HISTORIC.

_EUROPE._

The Standing Army a Legacy of Evil from the Middle Ages. -- It is the
Controlling Feature of the European Situation. -- Its Collateral
Evils: Wars and Debts. -- The Debts of Europe Represent a Series of
Colossal Crimes against the People; with the Armies and Navies they
Absorb the Bulk of the Annual Revenue. -- The People Fleeing from
them. -- They Threaten Bankruptcy; they Prevent Education. -- Germany,
the best-educated Nation in Europe, losing most by Emigration. -- Her
People will not Endure the Standing Army. -- The Folly of the European
International Policy of Hate. -- It is Possible for Europe to Restore
to Productive Employments 3,000,000 of men, to place at the Disposal
of her Educators $700,000,000, instead of $70,000,000 per annum, and
to pay her National Debts in Fifty-four Years, simply by the
Disbandment of her Armies and Navies. -- The Armament of Europe Stands
in the Way of Universal Education and of Universal Industrial
Prosperity. -- Standing Armies the Last Analysis of Selfishness; they
are Coeval with the Revival during the Middle Ages of the Greco-Roman
Subjective Methods of Education. -- They must go out when the New
Education comes in. 289