CHAPTER IV

PEACE WITHOUT HONOUR 118

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 regime, "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.