The Causes And Cure Of Armaments And War

Author : Albert W. Alderson
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ISBN 13 : 9781330932261
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book The Causes Cure of Armaments War written by Albert W. Alderson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Causes Cure of Armaments War: Includes Also a Refutation of Mr. Norman Angell's Thesis as Set Forth in "the Great Illusion" Wars That Pay and Wars That Do Not; The True Colonising Principle; The Myth of Racialism; Etc;, Etc Mr. Angell's Thesis stated. - Let us take Mr. Norman Angell first, because in refuting his conclusions I partly state my own. His theory, to use his own words, is briefly as follows: - "The Great Illusion" Page 45. - "We are concerned with the case of fully civilised rival nations in fully occupied territory, and the fact of conquering such territory gives to the conqueror no material advantage which he could not have had without conquest." Page 46. - "We might conquer Germany to-morrow, and we should find that we could not, because of that fact, make a single Englishman a shilling's worth the richer in consequence, the war indemnity notwithstanding." Mr. Angell says his theory applies to all civilised nations, such as those, for instance, of Western Europe. I submit, however, that by so saying Mr. Angell ruins and renders untrue the whole of his idea. I maintain that his conclusions are not true in the least of Western Europe and similar lands; I also maintain, however, that they are true of all nations which speak the same language, and only of those. (This contention I advanced in September, 1908, fourteen months before the publication of Mr. Angell's first booklet on this subject, "Europe's Optical Illusion.") His theory is not true of Europe because Europe speaks several tongues. These are the exact words I published in September, 1908: - "In wars between two peoples speaking the same tongue, neither side, winner or loser, though they fight till the crack of doom, can either "lose" or "gain" anything. (As a matter of fact they both lose in a way, because they are wasting blood and money all the time, and also, unconsciously, helping their rivals.) This, then, is the immutable law: A community should in its own interest never do anything to damage any community speaking the same tongue as itself, but, on the contrary, should endeavour to do all in its power to advance the interests of such a community. War between two communities speaking the same tongue is just like a man's right arm fighting his left - whichever arm wins the man suffers." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.