The Great Illusion

Renew：Part 24
Author：Norman Angell
Update：08-15-2023
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Chapter List

Chapter III., Part I.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter III. There remains the seventh, dealing with the notion that in some way England"s security and prosperity would be threatened by a foreign nation "taking our Colonies from us"--a thing which we are a.s.sured her rivals are burning to do, as it would involve the "breaking up of the British Empire" to their advantage.
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter II. of the first part of this book prove sufficiently, I think, that this was, until quite recently, overwhelmingly the point of view of those who defended war as an unavoidable part of human struggle.
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter II., Part II.) the outlines of the proposition, which leaves no escape from this conclusion. This is the scientific basis of the proposition voiced by the authorities I have quoted--Mr. Roosevelt, Von Moltke, Renan, Nietzsche, and various of the warlike clergy[68]--and it lies at the very bottom of the plea that man"s nature, in so far as it touches the tendency of men as a whole to go to war, does not change; that the warlike qualities are a necessary part of human vitality in the struggle for existence; that, in short, all that we know of the law of evolution forbids the conclusion that man will ever lose this warlike pugnacity, or that nations will survive other than by the struggle of physical force.
Chapter V. of the first part of this book, that Spanish America is being brought more and more into the economic movement of the world; and with the establishment of factories, in which large capital has been sunk, banks, businesses, etc., the whole att.i.tude of mind of those interested in these ventures is changed. The Jingo, the military adventurer, the fomentor of trouble, are seen for what they are--not as patriots, but as representing exceedingly mischievous and maleficent forces.
Chapter 14
Chapter II. of this section, to which the reader may be referred. I have there attempted to make plain that _pari pa.s.su_ with the drift from physical force towards economic inducement goes a corresponding diminution of pugnacity, until the psychological factor which is the exact reverse of pugnacity comes to have more force even than the economic one. Quite apart from any economic question, it is no longer possible for any government to order the extermination of a whole population, of the women and children, in the old Biblical style. In the same way, the greater economic interdependence which improved means of communication have provoked must carry with it a greater moral interdependence, and a tendency which has broken down profound national divisions, like those which separated the Celt and the Saxon, will certainly break down on the psychological side divisions which are obviously more artificial.
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter III., Part III.), notwithstanding the admirable work of the French pacifist school.
Chapter 22
Chapter VIII., Part I., "The Fight for the Place in the Sun."
Chapter VII., Part I.