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NEVER AGAIN!
(A protest and a warning addressed to the peoples of Europe)
by Edward Carpenter

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?
Which of these lines are we to follow? Along which path are we to go?
This is a question which the mass -- peoples of Europe in the future --
and not merely the Governments --- will have seriously to ponder and
decide.
That bodies of men -- as has happened a hundred times in the trenches
in Northern France and even on the Eastern Front -- should exchange
morning salutations and songs in humorous amity, and then at a word
of command should fall to shooting each other;
That peasants and artisans, and shopkeepers and students and
schoolmasters, who have no quarrel whatever, who on the whole rather
respect and honour each other, should with explosive bombs
deliberately blow one another to bits so that even their own mothers
could not recognize them; That human beings should use every devilish
invention of science with the one purpose of maiming, blinding,
destroying those against whom they have no personal