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

CHAPTER IV
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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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