--Necessity of elimination of Imperial military clique, 239. --Necessity of intermeddling in internal affairs of Germany even if not acceptable to the German people, 240. --Probability of pacific nations taking measures to insure peace, 244-298. --The British gentleman and his control of the English government, 244. --The shifting of control out of the hands of the gentleman into those of the underbred common man, 251. --The war situation and its probable effect on popular habits of thought in England, 252. --The course of such events and their bearing on the chances of a workable pacific league, 255. --Conditions precedent to a successful pacific league of neutrals, 258. --Colonial possessions, 259. --Neutralisation of trade relations, 263. --Futility of economic boycott, 266. --The terms of settlement, 269. --The effect of the war and the chances of the British people being able to meet the exigencies of peace, 273. --Summary of the terms of settlement, 280. --Constitutional monarchies and the British gentlemanly government, 281. --The American national establishment, a government by businessmen, and its economic policy, 292. --America and the league, 294. CHAPTER VII PEACE AND THE PRICE SYSTEM 299 The different conceptions of peace, 299. --Psychological effects of the war, 303. --The handicraft system and the machine industry, and their psychological effect on political preconceptions, 306. --The machine technology and the decay of patriotic loyalty, 310. --Summary, 313. --Ownership and the right of contract, 315. --Standardised under handicraft system, 319. --Ownership and the machine industry. 320. --Business control and sabotage, 322. --Governments of pacific nations controlled by privileged classes, 326. --Effect of peace on the economic situation, 328. --Economic aspects of a regime of peace, especially as related to the development of classes, 330. --The analogy of the Victorian Peace, 344. --The case of the American Farmer, 348. --The leisure class, 350. --The rising standard of living, 354. --Culture, 355. --The eventual cleavage of classes, those who own and those who do not, 360. --Conditioned by peace at large, 366. --Necessary conditions of a lasting peace, 367. AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF PEACE AND THE TERMS OF ITS PERPETUATION ON THE NATURE OF PEACE AND THE TERMS OF ITS PERPETUATION CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: ON THE STATE AND ITS RELATION TO WAR AND PEACE