CHAPTER PAGE I. STATEMENT OF THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR WAR 3 II. THE AXIOMS OF MODERN STATECRAFT 14 III. THE GREAT ILLUSION 28 IV. THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CONFISCATION 50 V. FOREIGN TRADE AND MILITARY POWER 68 VI. THE INDEMNITY FUTILITY 88 VII. HOW COLONIES ARE OWNED 107 VIII. THE FIGHT FOR "THE PLACE IN THE SUN." 131 PART II THE HUMAN NATURE AND MORALS OF THE CASE I. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CASE FOR WAR 155 II. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CASE FOR PEACE 168 III. UNCHANGING HUMAN NATURE 198 IV. DO THE WARLIKE NATIONS INHERIT THE EARTH? 222 V. THE DIMINISHING FACTOR OF PHYSICAL FORCE: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESULTS 261 VI. THE STATE AS A PERSON: A FALSE ANALOGY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 296 PART III THE PRACTICAL OUTCOME I. THE RELATION OF DEFENCE TO AGGRESSION 329 II. ARMAMENT, BUT NOT ALONE ARMAMENT 341 III. IS THE POLITICAL REFORMATION POSSIBLE? 353 IV. METHODS 368 APPENDIX ON RECENT EVENTS IN EUROPE 383 * * * * * PART I _THE ECONOMICS OF THE CASE_ CHAPTER I PAGES STATEMENT OF THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR WAR Where can the Anglo-German rivalry of armaments end?--Why peace advocacy fails--Why it deserves to fail--The attitude of the peace advocate--The presumption that the prosperity of nations depends upon their political power, and consequent necessity of protection against aggression of other nations who would diminish our power to their advantage--These the universal axioms of international politics 3-13 CHAPTER II THE AXIOMS OF MODERN STATECRAFT Are the foregoing axioms unchallengeable?--Some typical statements of them--German dreams of conquest--Mr. Frederic Harrison on results of defeat of British arms and invasion of England--Forty millions starving 14-27 CHAPTER III THE GREAT ILLUSION