Category: History - Modern (1750+)
ALTHOUGH this work does not embody any system of speculation about the universe, any creed or 'ism or large and abstruse set of principles, it must begin with a careful study of the phenomenon of revolt. Never before was there such an age of general and feverish restlessness;...
ALTHOUGH this work does not embody any system of speculation about the universe, any creed or 'ism or large and abstruse set of principles, it must begin with a careful study of...
2. CHAPTER II.IN the original conception of this work militarism was selected as the first sham to be assailed because it is at once the most costly and the least excusable. The way to remove...
3. CHAPTER III.WHEN warfare is abolished, and men no longer peep at their foreign neighbours over hedges of bayonets, there will be a number of less important international absurdities to remo...
4. CHAPTER IV.THE reforms I have so far advocated have one peculiar characteristic. They are urgent, easy to grasp, indisputable in principle, and enormously advantageous; but they need inter...
5. CHAPTER V.IN the last sentence of the last chapter I spoke of education, pacification, and industrial organisation as the three monumental tasks of a reformed political system. If the sup...
6. CHAPTER VI.AMONG the claims of reconstruction which the insurgent literature of our time puts forward, none, perhaps, so startles and inflames the Conservative as the demand for a reform o...
7. CHAPTER VII.THE old tradition of the family is intimately connected with the old ideal of womanhood, and this in turn is summoned to the bar of modern criticism. A substantial change in the...
8. CHAPTER VIII.THE constructive scheme which I have in mind throughout this criticism of our prejudices and institutions may, as I said, be summed essentially in two words: industrial organisa...
9. CHAPTER IX.IF it be granted that it is the interest and the duty of a nation to develop the intelligence of its people, we must conclude that the work is only half done, or not half done,...
10. CHAPTER X.THROUGHOUT the preceding chapters there have been resentful or disdainful references to the Churches, and it may be suspected that, in assailing other people's prejudices, I hav...