Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace. - Ralph Barton Perry

There is the growing influence of biology and the application of biological principles to the human faculties, thought among the rest. Man is said to have brains because they enable him to survive. Intelligence is construed as an organic function and reason as developed or evolved intelligence.

I have little interest in the "conscientious objector"; but I have the greatest regard for the individual thinker. The former opposes private conviction to public policy. His inflexibility is symptomatic of will and emotion, rather than enlightenment. The latter opposes freedom of thought to uniformity of opinion.

He believed that liberalism had saved the intellect at the cost of the repudiating the great historical phenomenon of religion.