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Why Men Fight, by Bertrand Russell, has the subtitle A Method of Abolishing the International Duel. The text states that wars cannot be prevented by reason alone, but by a positive life of impulses and passions antagonistic to those that lead to war. According to the text, all human activity springs from two sources: impulse and desire.
The book says that private property in land has no justification except historically through power of the sword. A line on vital impulses says that most of the activities that spring from them consist of two parts, one creative, which furthers one's own life and that of others, and one possessive, which hinders the life of some group with a different kind of impulse or circumstances.
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- Bertrand Russell
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