[Gutenberg 2990] • Never Again! A Protest and a Warning Addressed to the Peoples of Europe

Never again must this Thing happen. The time has come - if the human race does not wish to destroy itself in its own madness - for men to make up their minds as to what they will do in the future; for now indeed is it true that we are come to the cross-roads, we stand at the Parting of the Ways. The rapid and enormous growth of scientific invention makes it obvious that Violence ten times more potent and sinister than that which we are witnessing to-day may very shortly be available for our use - or abuse - in War. On the other hand who can doubt that the rapid growth of interchange and understanding among the peoples of the world is daily making Warfare itself, and the barbarities inevitably connected with it, more abhorrent to our common humanity?