The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National AdvantageAngell, Norman
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The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage
Angell, Norman
Commercial policy; Disarmament; Imperialism; War; War, Cost of
Pacifists: pleas of, 6, 7, 10-12;
case of, 168;
patriots and, 373
Pan-Germanists, aims of, 44
Patriots: Patriotism, national honour and, 204;
modification of aims of, owing to interdependence, 211;
General Lea on extinction of, in United States, 213;
the religion of politics, 362;
pacifists and, 373, 376
Peace: why propaganda has given small results, 10-12;
psychological case for, 168-169;
qualities necessary to preserve, 217;
occupations which tend towards, 218-219;
military training and, 219;
attitude of "average sensual man" towards, 371-372
Penfold, F. C, 87
Philippines, financial effect of loss of, to Spain, 241
Phillips, Captain March, 291
Pitcairn, 208
Police Force,
London, paradox of, applied in relation to conquest, 144, 145, 264
Politics, obsolete terminology of, 76
Portugal, cause of failure of expansion in Asia, 239-240
Possession: Sir J.R. Seeley on, 129;
fallacious theory considered from German point of view, 133-134
Printing: results of invention of, 277-279;
power of, 364
Prussia: cause of prosperity of, 246;
agitation for electoral reform in, 254
_Public Opinion_, 81-87
Pugnacity: irrational nature of, 187-189;
Professor William McDougal on, 308-309
_Referee_, 19
Regimentation, Germany's progress owing to, 255-256
Religion: early ideals of, 174-175;
Critchfield on influence
of Catholic priests in South American Republics, 175;
struggles of, and the State, 181-182, 205-206, 207;
beliefs no longer enforced by Government, 205;
Lecky on wars of, 206-211;
freedom of opinion in, 212;
reason of cessation of wars of, 307;
relation to politics of, 362-363
Renan, Ernest, 164-229
Repudiation. _See_ Finance
Revenue, State, what becomes of, 48
Rizzi, Francisco, 208
Robertson, John M., 249
Rohrbach, Dr. P., 136
Roman civilization: Mr. Roosevelt on, 223;
Sir J.R. Seeley on downfall and decay of, 237
Rome, Ancient: Sir J.R. Seeley on downfall and decay of, 237;
slave society of, 269;
contrast between, and Britain, 276
Roosevelt, Mr., 164, 201, 202, 222, 229, 231, 234, 262
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