CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY: ON THE STATE AND ITS RELATION TO WAR AND PEACE 1 The inquiry is not concerned with the intrinsic merits of peace or war, 2.
-- But with the nature, causes and consequences of the preconceptions favoring peace or war, 3.
-- A breach of the peace is an act of the government, or State, 3.
-- Patriotism is indispensable to furtherance of warlike enterprise, 4.
-- All the peoples of Christendom are sufficiently patriotic, 6.
-- Peace established by the State, an armistice--the State is an instrumentality for making peace, not for perpetuating it, 7.
-- The governmental establishments and their powers in all the Christian nations are derived from the feudal establishments of the Middle Ages, 9.
-- Still retain the right of coercively controlling the actions of their citizens, 11.
-- Contrast of Icelandic Commonwealth, 12.
-- The statecraft of the past half century has been one of competitive preparedness, 14.
-- Prussianised Germany has forced the pace in this competitive preparedness, 20.
-- An avowedly predatory enterprise no longer meets with approval, 21.
-- When a warlike enterprise has been entered upon, it will have the support of popular sentiment even if it is an aggressive war, 22.
-- The moral indignation of both parties to the quarrel is to be taken for granted, 23.
-- The spiritual forces of any Christian nation may be mobilised for war by either of two pleas: (1) The preservation or furtherance of the community's material interests, real or fancied, and (2) vindication of the National Honour; as perhaps also perpetuation of the national "Culture," 23..