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.