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awakened will and determination of the community,
in peace time relatively slothful and inert.
If the mass of the workers find that collectiv-
ist measures -- government control of railroads,
ships, mines, coal distribution, price fixing -- do not
give the results in peace which have been given in
war, they are not likely to hesitate to apply compul-
sions which, unheard of and impossible of applica-
tion before the war, have now been made entirely
familiar as war measures. Men have seen the
State, for the country's protection, compel its citizens
to surrender or hazard their very lives. Those who
have submitted to the operation of this rule are not
likely to hesitate to demand, if circumstances are suf-
ficiently pressing, that for the country's welfare, the
rich shall surrender property. Military conscrip-
tion is likely to be the forerunner of more complete
and thorough-going conscription of wealth. The re-
sort to virtual confiscation may render possible meas-
ures which peace time inertia might otherwise render
unworkable.
Millions of young men who have for years
risked their lives; women who have had to give their
husbands or lovers, are not likely to be deterred in
the demands for social reform by the consideration
that radical measures may prove "disturbing" to
commerce, or the peace of mind, and social quiet of
well-to-do folk. The after-the-war psychology of
the new electorate is likely to favour boldness and
adventure in social experimentation.

It is the first of these facts -- the fact that the war

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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: 106.
    
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