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.