--The common man is sufficiently patriotic but is hampered with a sense of right and honest dealing, 38. --Patriotism is at cross purposes with modern life, 38. --Is an hereditary trait? 41. --Variety of racial stocks in Europe, 43. --Patriotism a ubiquitous trait, 43. --Patriotism disserviceable, yet men hold to it, 46. --Cultural evolution of Europeans, 48. --Growth of a sense of group solidarity, 49. --Material interests of group falling into abeyance as class divisions have grown up, until prestige remains virtually the sole community interest, 51. --Based upon warlike prowess, physical magnitude and pecuniary traffic of country, 54. --Interests of the master class are at cross purposes with the fortunes of the common man, 57. --Value of superiors is a "prestige value," 57. --The material benefits which this ruling class contribute are: defense against aggression, and promotion of the community's material gain, 60. --The common defense is a remedy for evils due to the patriotic spirit, 61. --The common defense the usual blind behind which events are put in train for eventual hostilities, 62. --All the nations of warring Europe convinced that they are fighting a defensive war, 62. --Which usually takes the form of a defense of the National Honour, 63. --Material welfare is of interest to the Dynastic statesman only as it conduces to political success, 64. --The policy of national economic self-sufficiency, 67. --The chief material use of patriotism is its use to a limited number of persons in their quest of private gain, 67. --And has the effect of dividing the nations on lines of rivalry, 76. CHAPTER III ON THE CONDITIONS OF A LASTING PEACE 77 The patriotic spirit of modern peoples is the abiding source of contention among nations, 77. --Hence any calculus of the Chances of Peace will be a reckoning of forces which may be counted on to keep a patriotic nation in an unstable equilibrium of peace, 78. --The question of peace and war at large is a question of peace and war among the Powers, which are of two contrasted kinds: those which may safely be counted on spontaneously to take the offensive and those which will fight on provocation, 79. --War not a question of equity but of opportunity, 81. --The Imperial designs of Germany and Japan as the prospective cause of war, 82. --Peace can be maintained in two ways: submission to their dominion, or elimination of these two Powers; No middle course open, 84. --Frame of mind of states; men and popular sentiment in a Dynastic State, 84. --Information, persuasion and reflection will not subdue national animosities and jealousies; Peoples of Europe are racially homogeneous along lines of climatic latitude, 88. --But loyalty is a matter of habituation, 89. --Derivation and current state of German nationalism, 94.