A New Earth
Humans
suffered more at the hands of each other than through natural disasters. By
the year 1914, however, the highly intelligent human mind had invented not
only the internal combustion engine, but also bombs, machine guns,
submarines, flame throwers, and poison gas. Intelligence in the service of
madness! In static trench warfare in France and Belgium, millions of men
perished to gain a few miles of mud. When the war was over in 1918, the
survivors look in horror and incomprehension upon the devastation left
behind: ten million human beings killed and many more maimed or
disfigured. Never before had human madness been so destructive in its
effect, so clearly visible. Little did they know that this was only the
beginning.
By the end of the century, the number of people who died a violent
death at the hand of their fellow humans would rise to more than one
hundred million. They died not only through wars between nations, but also
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