He sees the issue in terms, of France and Germany not of humanity and of European civilization struggling forwards to a new order.

The war has bitten into his consciousness somewhat differently from ours, and he neither expects nor hopes that we are at the threshold of a new age.
It happens, however, that it is not only an ideal question that is at issue.

My purpose in this book is to show that the Carthaginian Peace is not _practically_ right or possible.

Although the school of thought from which it springs is aware of the economic factor, it overlooks, nevertheless, the deeper economic tendencies which are to govern the future.

The clock cannot be set back.