It is significant, by the way, that the "born soldier" has now been crushed by a non-military race whom he has always despised as having no military tradition. Capt. F.W. von Herbert ("Bye Paths in the Balkans") wrote (some years before the present war): "The Bulgars, as Christian subjects of Turkey exempt from military service, have tilled the ground under stagnant and enfeebling peace conditions, and the profession of arms is new to them." "Stagnant and enfeebling peace conditions" is, in view of subsequent events, distinctly good. [123] I dislike to weary the reader with such damnable iteration, but when a British Cabinet Minister is unable in this discussion to distinguish between the folly of a thing and its possibility, one _must_ make the fundamental point clear. [124] This Appendix was written before the Balkan States fell to fighting one another. It is scarcely necessary to point out that the events of the last few days (early summer 1913) lend significance to the argument in the text. [125] See p. 390. [126] _Review of Reviews_, November, 1912. [127] In the _Daily Mail_, to whose Editor I am indebted for permission to reprint it. INDEX Acceleration, Law of, relation to sociology, 197, 220 Adam, Paul, advocate of war, 216 Aflalo, F.G., home-sickness among emigrants, 132, 133 Africa, South: gold-mines of, as motive of Boer War, 125; position of trade in, in event of war, 126 Alsace-Lorraine, annexation of, 45-49 America. _See_ United States America, South: financial development of, 78, 245; folly of aggression in States of, 244; British methods of enforcing financial obligations in, 303 Annexation: of Alsace-Lorraine and value of, to Germany, 45-49; Alsace-Lorraine, financial aspect, 98; Bosnia and Herzegovina, effect on Austria, 303 Arabia and internal wars, 232 Argentine international trade, 78 Aristotle: on slavery, 269; the State, 296 Armagh, Archbishop of, advocate of war, 166 Armament, Armaments: _United Service Magazine_ quoted on limitations of, 18; Bernhardi school, 257; motives of, 330; justification of, 344 Asia Minor: protection of German interest in, 147; benefit of, to Britain if under German tutelage, 149 Asquith, Mr.: on Canadian Navy, 113; "color problem," 116, 117 Austria, annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 303 _Autos da fé_ in Spain, 208