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
Salisbury, Lord, 36
Samoa, the case of the Powers, 149
Sanderson, Lord, 324
Schulze-Gaevernitz, Prof. von, 6
Sea-Power, overseas trade, Benjamin Kidd on, 17-18.
_See also_ British Navy
Seeley, Sir J.R., 129, 237
Shaw, G.B., 250
Slavery, Slaves: society of, in Rome, 268;
its relation to physical force, 269-270
Socialism, progress of, in Germany after War of 1870, 99
Soetbeer, 98
Soldier: R. Blatchford on character of, 259-260;
Captain March Phillips on, 291-292;
_Spectator_ on, 264;
our debt to the, 293;
boyish appeal of the, 293-294;
the "poetic shelf" for the, 295
Spain: F.C. Penfold on progress of, since war, 87;
failure of expansion of, in Asia, 240-241;
Pierre Loti quoted in praise of troops, 242;
military virtues of, 242;
ruin of, by conquest, 246
Spanish American. _See_ America, South
_Spectator_, 156, 209, 210, 292, 333-337, 347, 356
Spencer, Herbert, 271-272
State, States: analogy between individuals in, 194-195;
division of, in relation to conflict, 196;
ancient and modern, character of, 296;
false analogy between, and a person, 298-301;
independent nature of, 300-301;
_Morning Post_ on the organism of, 304;
heterogeneous elements of, 306;
Professor McDougal on pugnacity of barbarous, 308-309;
definition of, 313;
reasons for lessening "rôle" of hostility among, 313-314;
position of citizen of small, if he became citizen of a
large, 321-322
States small: as prosperous as the Great Powers, 32, 40;
investments secure in, 36, 37, 41;
cause of prosperity of, 42-43
Statesmen: Major Murray on methods of, with regard to treaties, 41;
Leo Maxse on character of English, 196
Steevens, W.H., 282, 289, 290, 291
Steinmetz, S.R., 160
Stengel, Baron von, 20, 162, 229
Story, General John P., 162
Switzerland: the commercial power of, 75;
compared to Prussia, 255;
position of British subject in, if threatened by Britain, 302
_Temps, Le_, 122
Territorial independence, Farrer on, 42
_Times_, the, 17, 232, 250, 252, 319, 331
Trade: T.G. Martin on Britain's carrying, 18;
Admiral von Koster quoted on German overseas, 20-21;
impossible to capture, by military conquest, 30-33;
statistics of Britain's overseas, 120;
diminishing factor of physical force in, 275-276.
_See also_ Competition, Commerce, Industry
Transvaal:
treatment of British Indian in, before and after the war, 117-119;
gold-mines of, as motives for Boer War, 125-127;
national character of, still unchanged, 135
Treasury, Mr. D. Owen on what enriches, 19
Treaties, Major Stuart Murray on futility of, 41
Tribute, exaction of, an economic impossibility, 31
Tripoli, ineptitude of Italy in, 143
United States: Germans in, 133;
General Lea and _Daily Mail_ on national ideals in, 214
_United Service Magazine_, 18
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