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An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation

CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER III.
ON THE CONDITIONS OF A LASTING PEACE 77 The patriotic spirit of modern peoples is the abiding source of contention among nations, 77.
-- Hence any calculus of the Chances of Peace will be a reckoning of forces which may be counted on to keep a patriotic nation in an unstable equilibrium of peace, 78.
-- The question of peace and war at large is a question of peace and war among the Powers, which are of two contrasted kinds: those which may safely be counted on spontaneously to take the offensive and those which will fight on provocation, 79.
-- War not a question of equity but of opportunity, 81.
-- The Imperial designs of Germany and Japan as the prospective cause of war, 82.
-- Peace can be maintained in two ways: submission to their dominion, or elimination of these two Powers; No middle course open, 84.
-- Frame of mind of states; men and popular sentiment in a Dynastic State, 84.
-- Information, persuasion and reflection will not subdue national animosities and jealousies; Peoples of Europe are racially homogeneous along lines of climatic latitude, 88.
-- But loyalty is a matter of habituation, 89.
-- Derivation and current state of German nationalism, 94.
-- Contrasted with the animus of the citizens of a commonwealth, 103;--A neutral peace-compact may be practicable in the absence of Germany and Japan, but it has no chance in their presence, 106.
-- The national life of Germany: the Intellectuals, 108.
-- Summary of chapter, 116..


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