4
Wars and Capitalism, by P. Kropotkin. (Freedom Press.)
5
See Nash's Magazine for October, 1914, article by "Diplomatist."
6
Ibid.
7
In order to realize how easy such a process is, we have only to remember the steps by which the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899 was engineered.
8
Of course we must remember that there has been all along and is now in Germany a very large party, Socialist and other, which has not been thus carried away; but for the moment its mouth is closed and it cannot make itself heard.
9
See Kropotkin's War and Capitalism, p. 12.
10
See note infra on "Commercial Prosperity," p. 167. (Chapter XI below)
11
It is said that Russia took some steps towards mobilization as early as the 25th. If she did, that would seem quite natural under the circumstances.
12
There may possibly be found another explanation of these excessesnamely, in the galling strictness of the Prussian military regime. After years and years of monotonously regulated and official lives, it may be that to both officers and men, in their different ways, orgies of one kind or another came as an almost inevitable reaction.