--Contrasted with the animus of the citizens of a commonwealth, 103;--A neutral peace-compact may be practicable in the absence of Germany and Japan, but it has no chance in their presence, 106. --The national life of Germany: the Intellectuals, 108. --Summary of chapter, 116. CHAPTER IV PEACE WITHOUT HONOUR 118 Submission to the Imperial Power one of the conditions precedent to a peaceful settlement, 118. --Character of the projected tutelage, 118. --Life under the _Pax Germanica_ contrasted with the Ottoman and Russian rule, 124. --China and biological and cultural success, 130. --Difficulty of non-resistant subjection is of a psychological order, 131. --Patriotism of the bellicose kind is of the nature of habit, 134. --And men may divest themselves of it, 140. --A decay of the bellicose national spirit must be of the negative order, the disuse of the discipline out of which it has arisen, 142. --Submission to Imperial authorities necessitates abeyance of national pride among the other peoples, 144. --Pecuniary merits of the projected Imperial dominion, 145. --Pecuniary class distinctions in the commonwealths and the pecuniary burden on the common man, 150. --Material conditions of life for the common man under the modern rule of big business, 156. --The competitive regime, "what the traffic will bear," and the life and labor of the common man, 158. --Industrial sabotage by businessmen, 165. --Contrasted with the Imperial usufruct and its material advantages to the common man, 174. CHAPTER V PEACE AND NEUTRALITY 178 Personal liberty, not creature comforts, the ulterior springs of action of the common man of the democratic nations, 178. --No change of spiritual state to be looked for in the life-time of the oncoming generation, 185. --The Dynastic spirit among the peoples of the Empire will, under the discipline of modern economic conditions, fall into decay, 187. --Contrast of class divisions in Germany and England, 192. --National establishments are dependent for their continuance upon preparation for hostilities, 196. --The time required for the people of the Dynastic States to unlearn their preconceptions will be longer than the interval required for a new onset, 197. --There can be no neutral course between peace by unconditional surrender and submission or peace by the elimination of Imperial Germany and Japan, 202. --Peace by submission not practicable for the modern nations, 203. --Neutralisation of citizenship, 205. --Spontaneous move in that direction not to be looked for, 213. --Its chances of success, 219. --The course of events in America, 221. CHAPTER VI ELIMINATION OF THE UNFIT 233 A league of neutrals, its outline, 233. --Need of security from aggression of Imperial Germany, 234. --Inclusion of the Imperial States in the league, 237.