Tomorrow and Tomorrow

MICHAEL NOVAK

Long ago, St. Augustine wished that human beings were reasonable, pacific, and brotherly. Seeing that, instead, passion regularly darkens human minds and evil governs human hearts, he realized that every peace between nations must be built upon a balance of military power. He realized that it is fear of armed might, not reason, that induces nations to negotiate. In an evil world, force is reason’s daily instrument. Force without justice is brutal; justice without force is vain.