Chapter I
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CHAPTER I
Introductory: On the State and Its Relation To War and Peace The inquiry is not concerned with the intrinsic merits of peace or war, 2. —But with the nature, causes and consequences of the preconceptions favoring peace or war, 3. —A breach of the peace is an act of the government, or State, 3. —Patriotism is indispensable to furtherance of warlike enterprise, 4. —All the peoples of Christendom are sufficiently patriotic, 6. —Peace established by the State, an armistice—the State is an instrumentality for making peace, not for perpetuating it, 7. —The governmental establishments and their powers in all the Christian nations are derived from the feudal establishments of the Middle Ages, 9. —Still retain the right of coercively controlling the actions of their citizens, 11. —Contrast of Icelandic Commonwealth, 12. —The statecraft of the past half century has been one of competitive preparedness, 14. —Prussianised Germany has forced the pace in this competitive preparedness, 20. —An avowedly predatory enterprise no longer meets with approval, 21. —When a warlike enterprise has been entered upon, it will have the support of popular sentiment even if it is an aggressive war, 22. —The moral indignation of both parties to the quarrel is to be taken for granted, 23. —The spiritual forces of any Christian nation may be mobilised for war by either of two pleas: (1) The preservation or furtherance of the community's material interests, real or fancied, and (2) vindication of the National Honour; as perhaps also perpetuation of the national "Culture," 23.