Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
War is never a solution it is an aggravation.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.