The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage

CHAPTER III

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UNCHANGING HUMAN NATURE

The progress from cannibalism to Herbert Spencer--The disappearance of religious oppression by Government--Disappearance of the duel--The Crusaders and the Holy Sepulchre--The wail of militarist writers at man's drift away from militancy 198-221