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Review of: Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?

Posted by Matt in January 2nd, 2008

In 1816, as Europe emerged from 20 years of war and revolution, the French political theorist Benjamin Constant wrote an essay comparing ancient and modern ideas of liberty. The modern European differed most fundamentally from the Athenian and the Roman, Constant argued, in his attitude toward violence. In the ancient world, being at war was a normal state: “Each people incessantly attacked their neighbors or was attacked by them … All had to buy their security, their independence, their whole existence at the price of war. This was the constant interest, the almost habitual occupation of the free states of antiquity.” As a result, the right that mattered most to a Greek or Roman was the right to participate in the government of the state, including when and how it waged war.

The modern European, on the other hand, Constant wrote, saw war as a nuisance and an aberration, and looked forward to a day when it would be completely abolished. An advanced, 19th-century people “is strong enough to have nothing to fear from barbarian hordes.

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