thing of the loss of 400,000 men,
provided they can fulfil their own august designs."

The princes of to-day, great and small alike, are more spendthrift!

[7] Cf. Victor Berard's brief account of the Manchurian campaign in _La
revolte de l'Asie_. Cf. also _Les derniers jours de Pekin_, where Pierre
Loti describes the destruction of Tung-Chow, "the City of Celestial
Purity."

[8] Numerous issues of "Cahiers de la Quinzaine" have been devoted to
castigating the crimes of civilisation. I may mention:

(_a_) Sur le Congo, by E. D. Morel, Pierre Mille, and Felicien Challaye
("Cahiers de la Quinzaine," vii, 6, 12, 16).
(_b_) Sur les Juifs en Russie et en Roumanie, by Bernard Lazare, Elie
Eberlin, and Georges Delahache (iii, 8; vi, 6).
(_c_) Sur la Pologne, by Edmond Bernus (viii, 10, 12, 14).
(_d_) Sur l'Armenie, by Pierre Quillard (iii, 19).
(_e_) Sur la Finlande, by Jean Deck (iii, 21).

[9] Arnold Porret, _Les causes profondes de la guerre_, Lausanne, 1916.

[10] From a lecture entitled Nationalism in Japan, since republished in
the volume _Nationalism_, Macmillan, London, 1917 (pp. 59 and 60). This
address marks a turning-point in the history of the world.

[11] Consult a number of shrewd articles published during the last
decade by Francis Delaisi. One in particular may be mentioned, that
which appeared in "Pages libres" on January 1, 1907, dealing with
foreign affairs in 1906 (the Algeciras year). He gives striking examples
of what he terms "industrialised diplomacy." As a complement to Delaisi,
read the financial articles of the "Revue" (issues for November and
December, 1906) signed Lysis, and the commentary on these articles by P.
G. La Chesnais in "Pages libres" (January 19, 1907). In these writings
we find a plain demonstration of the power of the financial oligarchies
over the governments of the European states, alike republics and
monarchies--a power that is "collective, mysterious in its workings, and
independent of control."

[12] Let me quote a few lines from Maurras, so lucid a writer when not
under the spell of his fixed idea. "The Money State governs, gilds, and
decorates Intelligence: but muzzles it and puts it to sleep. The Money
State, at will, can prevent Intelligence from becoming aware of a
political truth; and if Intelligence utters a political truth, the Money
State can prevent that truth from being heard and understood. How can a
country realise its own needs i