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Norman Angell. The Great Illusion
The Great Illusion
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION
PREFACE
SYNOPSIS
PART I. THE ECONOMICS OF THE CASE
PART II. THE HUMAN NATURE AND MORALS OF THE CASE
PART III. THE PRACTICAL OUTCOME
PART I
THE ECONOMICS OF THE CASE
CHAPTER I
STATEMENT OF THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR WAR
CHAPTER II
THE AXIOMS OF MODERN STATECRAFT
CHAPTER III
THE GREAT ILLUSION
CHAPTER IV
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CONFISCATION
CHAPTER V
FOREIGN TRADE AND MILITARY POWER
CHAPTER VI
THE INDEMNITY FUTILITY
CHAPTER VII
HOW COLONIES ARE OWNED
CHAPTER VIII
THE FIGHT FOR "THE PLACE IN THE SUN"
PART II
THE HUMAN NATURE AND MORALS OF THE. CASE
CHAPTER I
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CASE FOR WAR
CHAPTER II
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CASE FOR PEACE
CHAPTER III
UNCHANGING HUMAN NATURE
CHAPTER IV
DO THE WARLIKE NATIONS INHERIT THE EARTH?
CHAPTER V
THE DIMINISHING FACTOR OF PHYSICAL FORCE: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESULTS
CHAPTER VI
THE STATE AS A PERSON: A FALSE ANALOGY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
PART III
THE PRACTICAL OUTCOME
CHAPTER I
THE RELATION OF DEFENCE TO AGGRESSION
CHAPTER II
ARMAMENT, BUT NOT ALONE ARMAMENT
CHAPTER III
IS THE POLITICAL REFORMATION POSSIBLE?
CHAPTER IV
METHODS
APPENDIX. ON RECENT EVENTS IN EUROPE
APPENDIX
ON RECENT EVENTS IN EUROPE
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX
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Norman Angell
A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage
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Nor is this philosophy of force either as conscienceless, as brutal, or as ruthless as its common statement would make it appear. We know that in the world as it exists to-day, in spheres other than those of international rivalry, the race is to the strong, and the weak get scant consideration. Industrialism and commercialism are as full of cruelties as war itself—cruelties, indeed, that are longer drawn out, more refined, though less apparent, and, it may be, appealing less to the common imagination than those of war. With whatever reticence we may put the philosophy into words, we all feel that conflict of interests in this world is inevitable, and that what is an incident of our daily lives should not be shirked as a condition of those occasional titanic conflicts which mould the history of the world.
The virile man doubts whether he ought to be moved by the plea of the "inhumanity" of war. The masculine mind accepts suffering, death itself, as a risk which we are all prepared to run even in the most unheroic forms of money-making; none of us refuses to use the railway train because of the occasional smash, to travel because of the occasional shipwreck, and so on. Indeed, peaceful industry demands a heavier toll even in blood than does a war, fact which the casualty statistics in railroading, fishing, mining and seamanship, eloquently attest; while such peaceful industries as fishing and shipping are the cause of as much brutality.[2] The peaceful administration of the tropics takes as heavy a toll in the health and lives of good men, and much of it, as in the West of Africa, involves, unhappily, a moral deterioration of human character as great as that which can be put to the account of war.
