If the Martians (if there are any) trained their telescopes (if they have any) on the Earth this year, they gazed on scenes of almost unbelievable chaos: Europe overrun by war, with famine and pestilence riding behind; Asia, which always knows famine and pestilence, also locked in war; the rest of the world feverishly preparing for a war of continents. Yet the men of Mars, if they have been watching this world long enough, know that it has always been thus on Earth, that inevitably out of disorder comes order, and out...
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