The Causes of WarThe peace that passeth understanding -- Paradise is a bazaar -- Dreams and delusions of a coming war -- While waterbirds fight -- Death-watch and scapegoat wars -- War chests and pulse beats -- A calendar of war -- The abacus of power -- War as an accident -- Aims and arms -- A day that lives in infamy -- Vendetta of the Black Sea -- Long wars -- And shorter wars -- The mystery of wide wars -- Australia's Pacific war -- Myths of the nuclear era -- War, peace and neutrality. |
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... idea were shared by Sir Robert Peel , William Gladstone , John Stuart Mill , scores of economists and poets and men of letters , and by England's Prince Con- sort , Albert the Good . His sponsorship of the Great Exhibi- tion in the new ...
... idea were shared by Sir Robert Peel , William Gladstone , John Stuart Mill , scores of economists and poets and men of letters , and by England's Prince Con- sort , Albert the Good . His sponsorship of the Great Exhibi- tion in the new ...
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... idea that peace was becoming the norm . The £ 50 prize or the gold medallion for the best essay on ways of preserving peace among nations promoted popular contests in scores of cities of the western world . The idea was carried further ...
... idea that peace was becoming the norm . The £ 50 prize or the gold medallion for the best essay on ways of preserving peace among nations promoted popular contests in scores of cities of the western world . The idea was carried further ...
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... idea relies much on analogies . Some- times it resembles the kind of argument which old men in- voked in European cities when the two - wheeled bicycle be- gan to supersede the tricycle . At other times it resembles a belief in the ...
... idea relies much on analogies . Some- times it resembles the kind of argument which old men in- voked in European cities when the two - wheeled bicycle be- gan to supersede the tricycle . At other times it resembles a belief in the ...
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The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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