'"Live and let live,'" writes a
clear-headed Austrian officer,
"is no device for an army.
Contempt for one's own comrades,
for the troops of the enemy, and,
above all, fierce contempt for
one's own person, are what war
demands of every one. Far better
is it for an army to be too savage,
too cruel, too barbarous,
than to possess too much
sentimentality and human
reasonableness. "
The Varieties of
Religious
Experience (1902),
by William James
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