1. (1) One of the contradictions of humanity is that people long for peace while at the same time they glorify war. (2) War is so common that a cynic might say it is the normal state of society. (3) Sociologist Pitirim Sorokin counted the wars in
Europe from 500 B. C. to A. D. 1925. (4) He documented 967 wars, an average of one war every two or three years.
(5) Counting years or parts of a year in which a country was at war, at 28 percent Germany had the lowest record of
warfare. (6) Spain's 67 percent gave it the dubious distinction of being the most war-prone. (7) Sorokin found that
Russia, the land of his birth, had experienced only one peaceful quarter-century during the entire previous thousand
years. (8) Since the time of William the Conqueror, who took power in 1066, England was at war an average of 56 out of
each 100 years. (9) Spain fought even more often. (10) It is worth noting the history of the United States in this regard:
since 1850, it has intervened militarily around the world about 160 times, an average of once a year.
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