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Page 6 - The object has been to produce the books at a price that shall not be prohibitive to people of small incomes. For the world cannot be saved by governments and governing classes. It can be saved only by the creation, among the peoples of the world, of such a public opinion as cannot be duped by misrepresentation nor misled by passion. The difficulties of that achievement can hardly be exaggerated, but ought not to daunt. And the ^ editor ventures to hope for support for men of good will in this one...
Page 6 - THE object of this series is twofold ; to disseminate knowledge of the facts of international relations, and to inculcate the international rather than the nationalistic way of regarding them. This latter purpose implies no distortion of facts. It is hoped that the books will be found to maintain a high standard of accuracy and fairness. But their avowed object is not merely to record facts, but to present them in a certain light, and with a certain object. That light is Internationalism and that...
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Page 23 - The armed robbery stage has filled an enormous space of human history, and still continues in certain parts of the world. It hung about the skirts of the early empires in Egypt and Mesopotamia and China. It sent out, from time to time, great swarms of nomads that overwhelmed these empires and settled down on the top of them, again to be overwhelmed by later swarms.
Page 23 - ... and governing class, with a tradition and ethic all of war. The feudalism of the European Middle Ages is the best known example. But we find a similar development in Japan, and something in many ways analogous in those Homeric poems which describe war in the Mediterranean region after the break-up of the old Minoan civilisation by invasions from the north.