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CHAPTER IV. PEACE WITHOUT HONOUR 118 Submission to the Imperial Power one of the conditions precedent to a peaceful settlement, 118. -- Character of the projected tutelage, 118. -- Life under the _Pax Germanica_ contrasted with the Ottoman and Russian rule, 124. -- China and biological and cultural success, 130. -- Difficulty of non-resistant subjection is of a psychological order, 131. -- Patriotism of the bellicose kind is of the nature of habit, 134. -- And men may divest themselves of it, 140. -- A decay of the bellicose national spirit must be of the negative order, the disuse of the discipline out of which it has arisen, 142. -- Submission to Imperial authorities necessitates abeyance of national pride among the other peoples, 144. -- Pecuniary merits of the projected Imperial dominion, 145. -- Pecuniary class distinctions in the commonwealths and the pecuniary burden on the common man, 150. -- Material conditions of life for the common man under the modern rule of big business, 156. -- The competitive regime, "what the traffic will bear," and the life and labor of the common man, 158. -- Industrial sabotage by businessmen, 165. -- Contrasted with the Imperial usufruct and its material advantages to the common man, 174..
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