Chapter IV
Peace Without Honour
Submission to the Imperial Power one of the conditions
precedent to a peaceful settlement, 118.
—Character of the projected tutelage, 118.
—Life under the Pax Germanica contrasted with
the Ottoman and Russian rule, 124.
—China and biological and cultural success, 130.
—Difficulty of non-resistant subjection is of a psychological
order, 131.
—Patriotism of the bellicose kind is of the nature of
habit, 134.
—And men may divest themselves of it, 140.
—A decay of the bellicose national spirit must be of
the negative order, the disuse of the discipline out
of which it has arisen, 142.
—Submission to Imperial authorities necessitates
abeyance of national pride among the other peoples, 144.
—Pecuniary merits of the projected Imperial dominion, 145.
—Pecuniary class distinctions in the commonwealths and
the pecuniary burden on the common man, 150.
—Material conditions of life for the common man under
the modern rule of big business, 156.
—The competitive régime, “what the traffic will bear,”
and the life and labor of the common man, 158.
—Industrial sabotage by businessmen, 165.
—Contrasted with the Imperial usufruct and its material
advantages to the common man, 174.