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patch it up, and that an entirely "New Social Order"
must replace it? Mainly that mere improvement of the
material condition of the workers, leaving unchanged their
moral status as a servile class, will not suffice. The re-
assertion of egalitarian ideas. The imponderabilia in the
motive forces of Labour Politics. Why are some Social-
ists lukewarm towards or hostile to the war? The emer-
gence of reactionary forces in war time. State Socialism
not synonymous with Freedom: nor with Peace. Will a
more socialized order necessarily make for a warless
world? The relation of Socialism to internationalism.
CHAPTER V
MILITARY CONSCRIPTION AND THE INSTITUTION OF
PRIVATE PROPERTY 		159
The fashion in which the needs of war have prompted
a reassertion of the absolute rights of the state over the
person -- his life and mind -- is modifying age-long con-
ceptions of private property. Confiscation, conscription
of wealth and the Eighth Commandment. Not repudia-
tion, but a progressive income tax. The virtual bank-
ruptcy of some of the belligerent states and its effect on fu-
ture legislation Necessitas. . . .
CHAPTER VI
THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE IN SOCIAL CHANGE 		178
The end of the old fatalism which implies that we must
"take the world as we find it," and that we cannot re-
make it. Some of the results that we may expect from
the cheapening of life, the contempt of danger, the re-cast-
ing of moral standards, and the spirit of revolution which
the war has produced. The "strenuous life" in times of
peace, and its social and political implications.
PART III

THE DANGERS
CHAPTER I
A SOCIETY OF FREE MEN OR THE SERVILE STATE? 		189
The greater the degree of socialization, the more de-
pendent does the individual become upon the community.
Unless this increased power of the community is used with

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Publication Information: Book Title: The British Revolution and the American Democracy: An Interpretation of British Labour Programmes. Contributors: Norman Angell - author. Publisher: B. W. Huebsch. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1919. Page Number: xxiii.
    
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