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THE HEALING OF NATIONS AND THE HIDDEN SOURCES OF THEIR STRIFE

By Edward Carpenter

1915

"The Tree of Life … whose leaves are for the Healing of the Nations"

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTORY
II. WAR-MADNESS
III. THE ROOTS OF THE GREAT WAR
IV. THE CASE AGAINST GERMANY
V. THE CASE FOR GERMANY
VI. THE HEALING OF NATIONS
VII. PATRIOTISM AND INTERNATIONALISM
VIII. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR AND RECRUITING
IX. CONSCRIPTION
X. HOW SHALL THE PLAGUE BE STAYED?
XI. COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY THE PROSPERITY OF A CLASS
XII. COLONIES AND SEAPORTS
XIII. WAR AND THE SEX IMPULSE
XIV. THE OVER-POPULATION SCARE
XV. THE FRIENDLY AND THE FIGHTING INSTINCTS
XVI. NEVER AGAIN!
XVII. THE TREE OF LIFE
APPENDIX—

A New and Better Peace

The Change from the Old Germany to the New

Classes in Germany for and against the War

Political Ignorance

Purpose of the War: Max Harden

England's Perfidy: Professors Haeckel and Eucken

Manifesto of Professor Eucken

Nietzsche on Disarmament

The Effect of Disarmament

The Principle of Nationality: Winston Churchill

Conscription

Neutralization of the Sea: H.G. Wells

The War and Democracy: Arnold Bennett

The Future Settlement: G. Lowes Dickinson

Brutality of Warfare: H.M. Tomlinson

Patriotism: Romain Rolland

No Patriotism in Business!

Manifesto, Independent Labour Party

Responsibility of the whole Capitalist Class

Text of Karl Liebknecht's Protest in Reichstag

The Russian Danger

Letter on Russia by P. Kropotkin

On the Future of Europe, by the same

Servia: R.W. Seton-Watson

The Battlefield: Walt Whitman

Chinese Christians on the War: Dr. A. Salter

Essential Friendliness of Peoples

Reconciliation in Death

Christmas at the Front, 1914

Letter from the Trenches by Baron Marschall von Bieberstein

I

INTRODUCTORY

The following Studies and Notes, made during the earlier period of thepresent war and now collected together for publication, do not—as willbe evident to the reader—pretend to any sort of completeness in theirembrace of the subject, or finality in its presentation. Rather they arescattered thoughts suggested by the large and tangled drama which we arewitnessing; and I am suf

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