William James: A sweet little place. One never sees a soldier.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts

American writers on peace and against war

William James: Selections on war

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William James
Correspondence

I see you take the war still very much to heart, and I myself think that the blundering way in which the Colonial Office drove the Dutchmen into it, with no conception whatever of the psychological situation, is only outdone by our still more anti-psychological blundering in the Philippines. (1901)

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Nauheim is a sweet little place. One never sees a soldier and wouldn’t know that Militarismus existed.

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I think that the manner in which the McKinley administration railroaded the country into its policy of conquest was abominable, and the way the country pucked up its ancient soul at the first touch of temptation, and followed, was sickening.

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I am half through “Waffen nieder!” a first-rate anti-war novel by Baroness von Suttner. It has been translated, and I recommend it as in many ways instructive.