Why Men Fight

expense of 73, 74, 83–84, 113, 119, 120, 125;

love for 144–45;

and marriage systems 109;

need for 125;

see also education

Christianity 13, 26, 33, 108, 132

Church:

dangers of 130–31;

and education 94;

and medieval society 13, 14;

power of 27;

and tribal feeling 30

Church of England 110, 111

City State 45

civilization/civilized life 31, 39, 117, 157, 158

clergymen/clerical profession 130

common purpose 14, 17–18, 30, 152;

and marriage 19–20

common sense 150

community 2–3, 31;

of nations 17

comparative wealth 49

compatriots, instinctive liking for 20, 32

Confederation Generale du Travail 31

conflict 17, 46, 57, 59, 66

conflict of interests 87–88, 114

conservatism 84, 128

constructiveness 10, 85

co-operation 17, 20, 23

co-operative movement xv, 88

corruption 137

cosmopolitanism 33

creativity:

impulse, creative 150–51, 153;

and science 138;

stifling 86, 87

creeds 30, 130–31

crime, fear of 31

Cromwell, Oliver 147

curiosity 5, 134

Dante 129, 130

death, and impulse 9, 10

death-rate, fall in 115n

democracy:

and Great War 8;

industrial 89;

and literacy 40–41;

and obedience 28;

and oppression, prevention of 64;

and reform 159;

and State power 35;

theory of 147

desires:

and happiness 47;

human nature 137;

and impulses 3–4, 6, 11, 152–53;

and needs 125;

of policy makers 53–54;

thwarting of 151;

for wealth 59;

of wives 122;

and worship of money 70

discipline 7, 99, 100, 101–2

distribution systems 77, 78, 81

divorce, expense of 109

eating 137

economic organizations 19, 87

economic system, chief test of 85

education 91–107;

compulsory 40;

dangers of 95;

as a drill 99;

expense of 83–84;

ideals of (B.R.’s views) 99–100, 101;

and patriotism 32;

and politics 92, 95;

possessiveness of 154;

power of 92;

and reverance 93–94;

subjective reporting of facts 96;

theorists 91;

ultimate goal of 91

educational reformers 103

elementary education 97, 102

Elizabethan England, Elizabethan 85

employment see work endowments 130

England:

and America 26, 65;

Balance of Power doctrine 61;

Elizabethan 85;

as free State 26;

and Germany 49–51, 73;

inheritance rights 80;

Ireland, oppression of (B.R.’s views) 64;

marriage law 109, 111;

and nationalism 34;

Pax Britannica 60;