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163. Admitting, then, that virtue may be called out by war and that it may be a factor in human progress, the destruction of life in it is always a wrong

164. 'But if it be admitted that war may do good, may not those who originate it have the credit of this?'

165. If they really acted from desire to do good, their share in the wrong is less; but in any case the fact that war was the only means to the good was due to human agency and was a wrong

166. (2) (See sec. 157). Hence it follows that the state, so far as it is true to its principle, cannot have to infringe the rights of men as men by conflicts with other states

167. It is not because states exist, but because they do not fulfil their functions as states in maintaining and harmonising general rights, that such conflicts are necessary

168. This is equally true of conflicts arising from what are called 'religious' grounds

169. Thus no state, as such, is absolutely justified in doing a wrong to mankind, though a particular state may be conditionally justified