B1064 <=> B1066 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1065]

“From the tasks of such a society good results might be obtained for all the beings of their planet without distinction of caste, but then, as soon as the affairs of this society begin to be somewhat difficult, or, as it is said, a crisis arises, these tasks instantly bore the terrestrial power-possessing beings and even at the mention of them or when by association they themselves remember about them, expressions of martyrdom immediately appear on their faces.

“And the reason why also nothing resulted from the labors of those beings who called their society ‘The-Earth-Is-Equally-Free-for-All’ – although almost everything was done by them for this aim that was possible to do there in the conditions which almost always reign on this incomparable planet – I shall tell you a little later, and even rather in detail, because the information concerning the causes of the fall of just this society, which was formed by your favorites in their attempt to eradicate or at least to diminish this archcriminal property which had been implanted in them, is once again very characteristic for your elucidation of the strangeness of their psyche in general and at the same time this information will serve as material for the understanding to a certain extent of the chief objective causes why these terrifying processes of reciprocal destruction proceed among them.

“And now as regards this contemporary society about which I spoke to you and told you that it was formed by the three-brained beings of your planet with the same aim of jointly elucidating and actualizing in practice corresponding measures for the total cessation on their planet of this terrifying process and which contemporary society of theirs will be called or is already called the League of Nations, then if you wish to know my sincere opinion, I am more than sure that this time also nothing effective will come out of it for two reasons.