如果我们所面临的境况确实是这样，那么，对于可能在我们思想中扎根的那些好战倾向，不管是什么，我们都设法将它连根拔起，我想没有比这更有好处的事情了。

If this is what we are up against, it won't do much good to try to uproot whatever war-like inclinations may dwell within our minds.

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在这段时间好战的倾向被人类和他们的习俗束缚起来。

During this period the propensity toward belligerence was put under leash by both humans and their institutions.

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