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Title: The World in Chains
Some Aspects of War and Trade

Author: John Mavrogordato

Release Date: January 24, 2007 [EBook #20435]

Language: English

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THE WORLD IN CHAINS

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But should we stay to speak, noontide would come,
And thwart Silenus find his goats undrawn,
And grudge to sing those wise and lovely songs
Of Fate, and Chance, and God, and Chaos old,
And Love, and the Chained Titan's woeful doom,
And how he shall be loosed, and make the earth
One brotherhood....

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THE WORLD
IN CHAINS

SOME ASPECTS OF WAR AND TRADE

BY JOHN MAVROGORDATO
M.A.

LONDON: MARTIN SECKER
NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI

_First Published 1917_

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IN MEMORIAM AMICORUM
_R. F. C. GELDERD SOMERVELL
IVAR CAMPBELL: T. R. A. H.
NOYES: J. W. BAILEY_
QVI ANTE DIEM PERIERVNT

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Note

_There may be some exaggeration in this book. I firmly believe that
England and her Allies entered this War with the noblest intentions. If
I have done less than justice to these, it is because my chief purpose
in this essay has been to express my equally firm belief that all these
fine emotions have been and are being exploited by the basest forms of
Imperialism and Capitalism._

_J. M._

_January 1st, 1917._

Contents

CHAPTER I

THE MASSACRE OF COLLEAGUES, 3

THE WIDENING SPHERE OF MORALITY, 4

THE RECEDING GOD, 6

THE PHILOSOPHER LOOKS AT SOCIETY, 8

HOMO HOMINI LUPUS,