Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) The Great Illusion The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage By Norman Angell _Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition_ G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS FOREIGN EDITIONS OF THIS BOOK ARE NOW ON SALE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES: GREAT BRITAIN _William Heinemann_ _London_ _First published, November, 1909. Reprinted, April, 1910; June, 1910_ _New Editions: November, 1910; January, 1911; April, 1911; May, 1911; reprinted, May, 1911; July, 1911; November, 1911; January, 1912; April, 1912; September, 1912; October, 1912; November, 1912_ FRANCE _Hachette et Cie_ _Paris_ " (_Cheap Popular Edition_) _Nelson_ _Paris_ GERMANY _Dieterichsche Verlags_ _Leipzig_ " (_Cheap Popular Edition_) _Vita: Deutsches Verlag_ _Berlin_ ITALY _Associazione della Stampa Periodica Italiana_ _Rome_ " (_Cheap Popular Edition_) _Casa Humanitas_ DENMARK _E. Jespersens_ _Copenhagen_ SPAIN _Nelson_ _Madrid_ FINLAND _W. Soderstrom_ _Borga_ HOLLAND _A.-W. Sijthoff_ _Leyden_ JAPAN _Hakubankwan Publishing Co._ _Tokio_ NORWAY _E. Jespersens_ _Copenhagen_ SWEDEN _P.-A. Norstedt et Soner_ _Stockholm_ RUSSIA _J. Maiewsky_ _Moscow_ IN PREPARATION: CHINA _Christian Literature Society for China_ _Shanghai_ BOHEMIA _English Club_ _Prague_ ARABIC _Al-Hillal Office_ _Cairo_ URDU } HINDI } BENGALI }_Brooks_ _Madras_ GUJERATI } MARATHI } TAMIL } The Knickerbocker Press, New York PREFACE TO THE FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION If this, the fourth American edition, is bulkier than its predecessors, it is chiefly because the events of the last two years throw an interesting light upon the bearing of the book's main thesis on actual world problems. I have, therefore, added an appendix dealing with certain criticisms based upon the nature of the first Balkan War, in the course of which I attempt to show just how the principles elaborated here have been working out in European politics.