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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: incantations, wherein the conception of its true nature has been
lost. To apprehend the true aspect, force, and morality of war as
a natural function of mankind one requires a feather in the hair
and a ring in the nose, or, better still, teeth filed to a point
and a tattooed breast. Unfortunately, a return to such simple
ornamentation is impossible. We are bound to the chariot of
progress. There is no going back; and, as bad luck would have it,
our civilization, which has done so much for the comfort and
adornment of our bodies and the elevation of our minds, has made
lawful killing frightfully and needlessly expensive.
The whole question of improved armaments has been approached by the
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