# The World in Chains: Some Aspects of War and Trade

Author: Mavrogordato, John

Genre: World War I

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20435

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## Summary

The existence of war in the modern world is primarily a question for the moral philosopher. It may be of interest to the anthropologist to consider war as a gallant survival with an impressive ritual and a code of honour curiously detached from the social environment, like the Hindu suttee; or with a procedure euphemistically disguised, like some chthonic liturgy of ancient Athens. But it is a problem too broad for the anthropologist when we consider that we have reached a stage of civilisation which regards murder as the most detestable of crimes and deprives the murderer of all civil rights and often even of the natural right to live: while in the same community the organised massacre o...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-world-in-chains-some-aspects-of-war-and-trade-20435/chapters/2/index.md)