I regard war as a fatal necessity, which appears inevitable

  for us from its close connection with human nature and the
  whole constitution of the world.  I should wish that war could
  be put off for the longest possible time.  Nevertheless, the
  moment will come when we shall be forced to go to war.  I am
  considering it at this moment from the standpoint of universal
  humanity, and making no reference to our misunderstanding with
  Germany--a most trivial incident in the history of mankind.  I
  say that war is necessary and beneficial, since it seems one of
  the conditions of existence for humanity.  War confronts us
  everywhere, not only war between different races and peoples,
  but war too, in private and family life.  It seems one of the
  principal elements of progress, and every step in advance that
  humanity has taken hitherto has been attended by bloodshed.

  "Men have talked, and still talk, of disarmament, while
  disarmament is something impossible, to which, even if it were
  possible, we ought not to consent.  I am convinced that a
  general disarmament throughout the world would involve
  something like a moral decadence, which would show itself in
  general feebleness, and would hinder the progressive
  advancement of humanity.  A warlike nation has always been
  strong and flourishing.  The art of war has led to the
  development of all the other arts.  History bears witness to
  it.  So in Athens and in Rome, commerce, manufactures, and
  literature never attained so high a point of development as
  when those cities were masters of the whole world by force of
  arms.  To take an example from times nearer our own, we may
  recall the age of Louis XIV.  The wars of the Grand Monarque
  were not only no hindrance to the progress of the arts and
  sciences, but even, on the contrary, seem to have promoted and
  favored their development."

So war is a beneficial thing!

But the best expression of this attitude is the view of the