Excerpt from The Great Cycle: The Solution of the Problem of War, an Abridgement of the Manuscript in Five Volumes, Bearing the Title of the World Question and Its Answer The prevailing war differs from all past wars. It involves the nations of Europe no less than Asia and of North, Central and South America. It incorporates in its activities the great continents of Australasia and Africa and their islands. It, in short, compasses the whole world, and is properly called the World War. The world, therefore, being at war, if we look to see what this means, we shall perceive that it is really the human race that is at war. Now, since war consists of combat, and since combat entailsthe active presence Of contestants, so, in order that a contest may exist, there must be some Object which, in the minds of the contend ers, constitutes an issue. There is, therefore, in this war somewhere an issue, but where it is the world does not understand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.