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Rh  the number of the Great Powers—five— s precisely the total of the pre-war Dual Alliance (Triple only with Italy) and Triple Entente, whose hostility caused the War. It follows that we shall be able to maintain our League as long as the five Powers now allied, continue to agree. Their number is not sufficient to prevent a bid for predominance on the part of one or two of them. No doubt a new Germany and a new Russia will some day increase them to seven. Perhaps the Smaller Powers, taking note of the naked fact which was exposed by this incident, will set about federating among themselves. A Scandinavian group, a group of the Middle Tier of East Europe (Poland to Jugo-Slavia), and a Spanish South American group (if not also including Brazil) may all, perhaps, be attainable. In any case the League should do service in bringing the opinion of mankind to bear for the just revision of obsolescent treaties before they become unbearable misfits. But let us be rid of cant: Democracy must reckon with Reality. 

B  ANALYSIS

BEING THE HEADS OF ARGUMENT IN THIS BOOK, WITH CHAPTER AND PAGE REFERENCES

I.—The Future and peace, 1; Causes of past wars, 2; Growth of opposing interests, 3; Danger of merely juridical conceptions of the League of Nations, 4; The possibility of a World-Tyranny, 5; The problem stated, 5.

II.—Democratic Idealism, its successive tragedies, 6, and its relation to Reality, 9; The Economic Reality of the 'Going Concern,' 10; The organisers of Going Concerns, 13; The emergence of organisers from Revolution, 14; The organiser and social discipline, 16; The great Organiser is the great Realist, 18; Democratic prejudice against Experts, 19; The organiser thinks strategically, 20; His 'ways and means' mind, 21; Napoleon, 21; Bismarck, 21; The strategical mentality of Prussia, 24; 'Kultur' and strategy, 24; The German war map, 26; Strategical thought in Economics, 29; But Democracy thinks ethically, 31; 'No annexations, no indemnities,' 33;