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By Edward Carpenter
1915
"The Tree of Life … whose leaves are for the Healing of the Nations"
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
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