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The idea that war is a “regulative element” cannot be justified
in rational or logical terms, nor with scientific facts. War is a de-

structive force that causes enormous losses of life and property,
and its effects on society are enormously dif-
ficult to repair.
Nonetheless, those who regarded
constant war and slaughter as require-
ments of so-called civilization contin-
ued to call for them. Elsewhere in
Bernhardi's book, for instance, he
wrote:

A Polish girl whose older sister
was killed by the Nazis in 1939.