[5] Cf. Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, as above.
[6] All this, which should be plain without demonstration, has been repeatedly shown in the expositions of various peace advocates, typically by Mr. Angell.
[7] "To us the state is the most indispensable as well as the highest requisite to our earthly existence.... All individualistic endeavor ... must be unreservedly subordinated to this lofty claim.... The state ... eventually is of infinitely more value than the sum of all the individuals within its jurisdiction." "This conception of the state, which is as much a part of our life as is the blood in our veins, is nowhere to be found in the English Constitution, and is quite foreign to English thought, and to that of America as well."—Eduard Meyer, England, its Political Organisation and Development and the War against Germany, translated by H.S. White. Boston 1916. pp. 30-31.
[8] Denk 'mall
[9] For an extended discussion of this point, see Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, especially ch. v. and vi.
[10] Cf. The Theory of the Leisure Class, especially ch. v.-ix. and xiv.
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