Excerpt from Peace and War in the Balance: Delivered at South Place Institute on Dr. Conway's Birthday, March 17, 1911 Freedom in following the subject - Moncure Conway's position - His lifelong advocacy of peace - Quotations to prove this - Yet he maintained self-defence was not war - Extreme principle of peace thus abandoned. Peace principle not entertained by the Hague Con ference - Character of the Conference - What it has gained - Mr. Hobson's and Norman Angell's analyses of war The Great Illusion - Its appeal to the pocket Consequent high hopes perhaps obscured by two con siderations - (i) War, though disastrous to States, may be lucrative to certain of the ruling classes Most modern wars are attacks on small or unprotected peoples, and may be lucrative even to States - Great wars may take the cheaper and bloodless form of com parison of armaments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.