[597] tendency in Prussian militarism to glorify war, not to see that it is in itself an expression of the demonic^a possession of mankind as a whole, but to call it a glorious thing in itself. Now of course every evil can produce virtues which otherwise never would come into existence, as diseases often do to people. But a disease is a disease even if has a wholesome effect on a special person. And so, war is EVIL, even if it produces [something] which can be considered as good. Now let’s look at the second type, the legalistic. It says: ''If this is true, if the kingdom of God ^bimplies the universal peace, because everything is rooted in the same eternal ground, then let’s try to do that, and everybody MUST be a pacifist, and everybody must REFUSE to go to war.'' This legalistic form of pacifism^c ALSO overlooks the separation of essence and existence. It doesn’t see that under the conditions of existence, of human estrangement^d, estrangement of everything FROM everything and from ITSELF, the power^e which is the structure of reality^f-- God^g Himself is ultimate^h power--actualizes itself in terms of compulsion, through force. This is the situation which we have in [the] inner-political realm--without the inner application, or at least the threat of force, no community, even the smallest, could exist. And we have it in relation of the great groups to each other. This is man's predicamentⁱ, and it is impossible to deny it. But then there is a third consideration, namely the consideration that IF the idea of the kingdom of Go^jd is the universal unity, and IF there are saving powers in existence so that existence is not thoroughly self-destructive, then these saving powers should work, and one should