CHAPTER II.
ON THE NATURE AND USES OF PATRIOTISM 31 The nature of Patriotism, 31.
-- Is a spirit of Emulation, 33.
-- Must seem moral, if only to a biased populace, 33.
-- The common man is sufficiently patriotic but is hampered with a sense of right and honest dealing, 38.
-- Patriotism is at cross purposes with modern life, 38.
-- Is an hereditary trait?
41.
-- Variety of racial stocks in Europe, 43.
-- Patriotism a ubiquitous trait, 43.
-- Patriotism disserviceable, yet men hold to it, 46.
-- Cultural evolution of Europeans, 48.
-- Growth of a sense of group solidarity, 49.
-- Material interests of group falling into abeyance as class divisions have grown up, until prestige remains virtually the sole community interest, 51.
-- Based upon warlike prowess, physical magnitude and pecuniary traffic of country, 54.
-- Interests of the master class are at cross purposes with the fortunes of the common man, 57.
-- Value of superiors is a "prestige value," 57.
-- The material benefits which this ruling class contribute are: defense against aggression, and promotion of the community's material gain, 60.
-- The common defense is a remedy for evils due to the patriotic spirit, 61.
-- The common defense the usual blind behind which events are put in train for eventual hostilities, 62.
-- All the nations of warring Europe convinced that they are fighting a defensive war, 62.
-- Which usually takes the form of a defense of the National Honour, 63.
-- Material welfare is of interest to the Dynastic statesman only as it conduces to political success, 64.
-- The policy of national economic self-sufficiency, 67.
-- The chief material use of patriotism is its use to a limited number of persons in their quest of private gain, 67.
-- And has the effect of dividing the nations on lines of rivalry, 76..