Chapter III
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CHAPTER III
On The Conditions of a Lasting Peace The patriotic spirit of modern peoples is the abiding source of contention among nations, 77. —Hence any calculus of the Chances of Peace will be a reckoning of forces which may be counted on to keep a patriotic nation in an unstable equilibrium of peace, 78. —The question of peace and war at large is a question of peace and war among the Powers, which are of two contrasted kinds: those which may safely be counted on spontaneously to take the offensive and those which will fight on provocation, 79. —War not a question of equity but of opportunity, 81. —The Imperial designs of Germany and Japan as the prospective cause of war, 82. —Peace can be maintained in two ways: submission to their dominion, or elimination of these two Powers; No middle course open, 84. —Frame of mind of states; men and popular sentiment in a Dynastic State, 84. —Information, persuasion and reflection will not subdue national animosities and jealousies; Peoples of Europe are racially homogeneous along lines of climatic latitude, 88. —But loyalty is a matter of habituation, 89. —Derivation and current state of German nationalism, 94. —Contrasted with the animus of the citizens of a commonwealth, 103 —A neutral peace-compact may be practicable in the absence of Germany and Japan, but it has no chance in their presence, 106. —The national life of Germany: the Intellectuals, 108. —Summary of chapter, 116.