Among the workers there is spreading a theory of the absolute blessedness of peace, which is a scandal to the intelligence and moral energy of our age; a hotch-potch of phrases, so clear that everybody reposts them, and so miserable that every man who is a man throws them overboard at once when the majesty of war arises in bodily form before the people.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Among the workers there is spreading a theory of the absolute blessedness of peace, which is a scandal to the intelligence and moral energy of our age; a hotch-potch of phrases, so clear that everybody reposts them, and so miserable that every man who is a man throws them overboard at once when the majesty of war arises in bodily form before the people." in the context of "Historische und Politische Aufsatze, 1865, Vol. I, p. 782, quoted in Joseph McCabe, Treitschke and the Great War (London: T.F. Unwin, 1914), p. 175." to mean that wisdom is timeless.