ハイエク『隷属への道』（40） 人は自分が望むものを進んで信じるものだ
The sterility of the peace settlement of 1919 was due to the failure of those who made it to understand the contemporary revolution. – E. H. Carr, Conditions of Peace , Chapter I War and Revolution （１９１９年の和平調停が不毛だったのは、それを行った人々が現代の革命が理解できなかったからだった）――Ｅ・Ｈ・カー『平和の条件』 とカー教授は言う。 In retrospect, it is not difficult to see that the increasing strains of competitive capitalism were one of the most important underlying causes of the catastrophe of 1914. To multiply the number of competing units in the name of the ideals of die French Revolution was as sure and as mad a way as could well have been found of aggravating the crisis and of ensuring a repetition of the outbreak. The paradox which continues to puzzle students of the period between the two wars is that the victorious Allies "lost the peace". – Ibid. （振り返ってみれば、競争資本主義の歪（ひず）みの増大が、１９１４年の破局の最も重要な根本原因の１つであったことは分かり難くはない。フランス革命の理想の名の下に競争部隊の数を増やすことは、危機を悪化させ、必ずその発生を繰り返す、これ以上ないほど確実で狂気の方法であった。２つの戦争の間の期間を研究する者を困惑させ続けている逆理は、戦勝国たる連合国が「...