The Human Cycle

The Ideal of Human Unity

War and Self-Determination

CONTENTS

	Pre-Content
	Post-Content

	THE HUMAN CYCLE
	Chapter I The Cycle of Society
	Chapter II The Age of Individualism and Reason
	Chapter III The Coming of the Subjective Age
	Chapter IV The Discovery of the Nation-Soul
	Chapter V True and False Subjectivism
	Chapter VI The Objective and Subjective Views of Life
	Chapter VII The Ideal Law of Social Development
	Chapter VIII Civilisation and Barbarism
	Chapter IX Civilisation and Culture
	Chapter X Aesthetic and Ethical Culture
	Chapter XI The Reason as Governor of Life
	Chapter XII The Office and Limitations of the Reason
	Chapter XIII Reason and Religion
	Chapter XIV The Suprarational Beauty
	Chapter XV The Suprarational Good
	Chapter XVI The Suprarational Ultimate of Life
	Chapter XVII Religion as the Law of Life
	Chapter XVIII The Infrarational Age of the Cycl
	Chapter XIX The Curve of the Rational Age
	Chapter XX The End of the Curve of Reason
	Chapter XXI The Spiritual Aim and Life
	Chapter XXII The Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation
	Chapter XXIII Conditions for the Coming of a Spiritual Age
	Chapter XXIV The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age

	THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY
	PART - I
	Chapter I The Turn towards Unity: Its Necessity and Dangers
	Chapter II The Imperfection of Past Aggregates
	Chapter III The Group and the Individual
	Chapter IV The Inadequacy of the State Idea
	Chapter V Nation and Empire: Real and Political Unities
	Chapter VI Ancient and Modern Methods of Empire
	Chapter VII The Creation of the Heterogeneous Nation
	Chapter VIII The Problem of a Federated Heterogeneous Empire
	Chapter IX The Possibility of a World-Empire
	Chapter X The United States of Europe
	Chapter XI The Small Free Unit and the Larger Concentrated Unity
	Chapter XII The Ancient Cycle of Prenational Empire-Building — The Modern Cycle of Nation-Building
	Chapter XIII The Formation of the Nation-Unit — The Three Stages
	Chapter XIV The Possibility of a First Step towards International Unity — Its Enormous Difficulties
	Chapter XV Some Lines of Fulfilment
	Chapter XVI The Problem of Uniformity and Liberty

	THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY
	PART II
	Chapter XVII Nature's Law in Our Progress — Unity in Diversity, Law and Liberty
	Chapter XVIII The Ideal Solution — A Free Grouping of Mankind
	Chapter XIX The Drive towards Centralisation and Uniformity — Administration and Control of Foreign Affairs
	Chapter XX The Drive towards Economic Centralisation
	Chapter XXI The Drive towards Legislative and Social Centralisation and Uniformity
	Chapter XXII World-Union or World-State
	Chapter XXIII Forms of Government
	Chapter XXIV The Need of Military Unification
	Chapter XXV War and the Need of Economic Unity
	Chapter XXVI The Need of Administrative Unity
	Chapter XXVII The Peril of the World-State
	Chapter XXVIII Diversity in Oneness
	Chapter XXIX The Idea of a League of Nations
	Chapter XXX The Principle of Free Confederation
	Chapter XXXI The Conditions of a Free World-Union
	Chapter XXXII Internationalism
	Chapter XXXIII Internationalism and Human Unity
	Chapter XXXIV The Religion of Humanity
	Chapter XXXV Summary and Conclusion
	A Postscript Chapter

	WAR AND SELF-DETERMINATION
	The Passing of War?
	The Unseen Power
	Self-Determination
	A League of Nations
	1919
	After the War

APPENDIXES

Appendix I

Appendix II

Note on the Texts

APPENDIX II

The war is over, though peace still lingers, her way sadly embarrassed by blockades, armistices, secret negotiations, conferences where armed and victorious national egoisms dispute the bloodstained spoils of the conflict, political and other advantages, captured navies, indemnities, colonies, protectorates, torn fragments of dismembered States and nations, embarrassed most of all perhaps by the endeavour of the world's rulers and wise men to found upon the ephemeral basis of the results of war an eternal peace for humanity. But still the cannon at least is silent except where the embers of war still smoke and emit petty flames in distracted Poland and Russia, and peace though a lame and perhaps much mutilated peace must before long arrive. The great war is over and that may seem the main thing to [sentence left incomplete]

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