Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VII, Section 1, p. 268
“The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.”
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 284.
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