Excerpt from God and War: An Exposition of the Principles Underlying Creative Peace Thereafter, on many nights I saw the moon and the restless waters, but they spoke with changed voices. Their beauty appeared cold and forbidding. Their personal message had grown confused. Inexorable law was now the word they uttered. Their former kindness seemed a smile of mockery. What reconciling note could be struck to harmonize beauty and brutality? How could the soul admit the reality of God and the fact Of war? 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.