Dangerous Criminal Class, A? Chapter XI, 247. Dangerous Preachments, Chapter I, 1. De Bange obturator, an American invention, 217. Dirigibles, foreign countries possessing, 218-19. Disarmament, repeatedly a failure, 12, 13. Diseases, germs of, sown by old pioneers, 278. Dreadnought, evolved by England, 158; superiority of, recognized by Germany, France, Japan, 158; not appreciated by American Congress, 158; cost of, 225. Du Pont Company, The, 9, 10, 77. Du Pont, Francis G., eliminated danger in manufacture of gun-cotton, 257, 258. Economic Club of Boston, 18. Ego-Fanatic Good Intentions and Their Relation to National Defense, Chapter X, 235. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, his opinion about war, 271-72. Emery, Professor C., quotation from his "Some Economic Aspects of War," 226. European War, predicted, 13, 14, 15, 16. Falkland Islands, running fight off, 195. Fiske, Admiral, quoted, 170. Formative strife, man as a master, 27, 28, 29. Franklin, Benjamin, 135-36. Frederick the Great, 79, 90. French batteries outrange German, 103. French Government, maker of its own gunpowder, 262. Fuel-ships, 170, 171. "Future of War, The," by M. de Bloch, an argument against possibility of war, 2. Gardner, Congressman, 128, 161, 169, 216. Garrison, Secretary of War, interviewed, 100, 101. Gathmann gun, 208. General Board of Navy, organized, 160; headed by General Dewey, 160, 163, 164. and Congress, 168; report of, 169. Germany, government of, 135; militarism of, 139; progress in industrial arts and sciences, 139; superiority of, intellectually, 140; fight of, with England at North Sea, 195; standing army of, 225. Goethals, Colonel, character of, 253-54. Good and Evil of Peace and of War, The, Chapter XII, 265. Grant, 90. Great Powers, 101, 108. Gun, increase in size and strength, 184; dependence of, upon armored protection, 187; high-power naval, most powerful dynamic instrument, 189. Gunpowder, smokeless, invention and development of, 181; four times as powerful as black powder, 182. Guns, field, necessity for, 103, 104; helplessness of infantry without, 107; superiority over armor-plate, 196. Haeckel, Ernst, 22. Hague Congresses, 35. Haldane, Lord, 128, 164. Hannibal, 90, 162. Hannibal's Balearic slingers, 85. Hanno, 162. Herodotus, quoted, 281. Herr Krupp, 252. Holland submarine boats, 77. Holy Alliance, formed 1815, 56; purpose of, 56, 57; actions of, 57. Howitzers, German use of, 103; governmental need of, 201-2; Germans reported makers of huge, 199. Huns and Vandals of present day, 31.