Eiconics and Eirenics

Abstract

Fine distinctions, some of these, that we have been drawing. Some people, perhaps many, are rather allergic to fine distinctions. About such people, that philosopher-statesman Lord Balfour is credited with a characteristic remark. ‘I am told people complain that I am given to drawing fine distinctions. I am. High policy depends upon fine distinctions: and, if people find they cannot understand them, they should entrust their affairs to those who do.’ Those sentiments, if not the whole truth, are certainly a part of it, in regard to the problem of peace.