There Would Have Been No War IF the French government had said to the English the French government had said to the Germans THE INEVITABLE WAR FRANCIS DELAISI Read these definitions taken at random from THE INEVITABLE WAR (La Guerre qui Vient) By FRANCIS DELAISI AMBASSADORS: "Ambassadors in gold braid are today no more and no less than the agents of the banks and the great corporations.” DEMOCRACY: "A blind used to cover up the intrigues of the financial oligarchy which is in reality in control of the government and the people. DIPLOMATS: "The tools of the financial and industrial oligarchy who work to obtain for them foreign loans or foreign purchases for their goods." FINANCE'S STRONGEST ALLY: "Popular ignorance." FOREIGN POLICY: "(Something) beyond the control of both public opinion and parliament; it is even beyond the control of government. In our mistrustful democracy it rests with a single man and a small coterie of financiers and men of affairs at will to unchain a war and embark this country upon a series of the most perilous adventures." MOVING FORCES OF WARS: "Orders, concessions, loans." Milwaukee Free Press "Delaisi developed a positive clairvoyance in foreseeing certain phases of the struggle which he predicted and which are now being realized.... The chief interest of his work. lies in his clear discernment of the European conditions that brought about the war and in his forceful description of them.... "As a voice speaking out of the past-half a decade ago-it will have more convincing power as to the causes of the terrible European struggle than the utterance of the present-day observer, always open to the accusation of biss." Price, 12mo, Cloth, $1.00 Net The Open Court Publishing Company CHICAGO THE VENETIAN ATTACK AT THE DARDANELLES IN 1646. From an old Italian engraving reproduced in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung of September 5, 1915. Frontispiece to The Open Court. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea. OWADAYS it will be universally admitted that the human race has gradually advanced to its present condition of comparative enlightenment from an original state of the utmost ignorance and lowest savagery. The old dream of an original golden age of complete enlightenment from which we have fallen is now wholly abandoned. The Chinese idea of an ancient innocence when man was as pure as the eye of cattle can only be admitted as the primeval age when by severe natural selection with the merciless extermination of delinquents beneficial instincts were kept pure and perfect; as we know them in wild animals. When we consider how mysterious and still inexplicable are even now many natural facts, it is not surprising that in the early yet far denser ignorance of our race resort should have been precipitately had to easily invented supernatural explanations of them. For example, the loving veneration of parents and of the originators of one's family and race, together with occasional vivid observation of some of them in dreams, would very naturally lead to a belief in their disembodied existence in another world. There would be strong corroboration in the hallucinations (the effect of especially vivid imagination), to which the staidest of us is occasionally subject. Moreover the very existence of the whole natural world was more easily imagined to be the result of some supernatural creation than (as at the present day apparent) merely the effect of a personal existence from an infinite antiquity notwithstanding the apparent springing into existence or disappearing from it that, as far as eyesight is concerned, occasionally occur. Accordingly the problem of the existence of natural objects. |