“It would be a miracle if already at this point the whole influence of
  British Finance were not thrown against the action of the British
  Government.” (On the assumed British capture of Hamburg, p. 53).

  “The most absolute despots cannot command money.” (p. 226.)

  “With reference to capital, it may almost be said that it is organised
  so naturally internationally that formal organisation is not
  necessary.” (p. 269.)

3.  THE DEAL.—­“France has benefited by the conquest of Algeria, England by that of India, because in each case the arms were employed not, properly speaking, for conquest at all, but for police purposes.” (p. 115.)

“While even the wildest Pan-German has never cast his eyes in the direction of Canada, he has cast them, and does cast them, in the direction of Asia Minor.... Germany may need to police Asia Minor.” (pp. 117, 118.)

  “It is much more to our interest to have an orderly and organised
  Asia Minor under German tutelage than to have an unorganised and
  disorderly one which should be independent.” (p. 120.)

“Sir Harry Johnston, in the ‘Nineteenth Century’ for December, 1910, comes a great deal nearer to touching the real kernel of the problem....  He adds that the best informed Germans used this language to him:  ’You know that we ought to make common cause in our dealings with backward races of the world!’”

The quotations speak for themselves.  Note the policing of the “backward races.”  The Colonies are not in favour.  Mr. Angell writes:  “What in the name of common sense is the advantage of conquering them if the only policy is to let them do as they like?” (p. 92.) South Africa occasions bitter reflections:  “The present Government of the Transvaal is in the hands of the Boer Party.” (p. 95.) And he warns Germany, that, supposing she wishes to conquer South Africa, “she would learn that the policy that Great Britain has adopted was not adopted by philanthropy, but in the hard school of bitter experience.” (p. 104.) We believe him, and we may have to teach a lesson or two in the same school.  It may be noted in passing Mr. Angell gives Ireland the honour of a reference.  In reply to a critic of the Morning Post, who wrote thus:  “It is the sublime quality of human nature that every great nation has produced citizens ready to sacrifice themselves rather than submit to external force attempting to dictate to them a conception other than their own of what is right.” (p. 254.) Mr. Angell replied:  “One is, of course, surprised to see the foregoing in the Morning Post; the concluding phrase would justify the present agitation in India, or in Egypt, or in Ireland against British, rule.” (p. 254.) Comment is needless.  The reading and re-reading of this book forces the conclusion as to its sinister design.  Once that design is exposed its danger recedes.  There is one at least of the “backward races” that may not be sufficiently alive to self-interest, but may for all that upset the capitalist table and scatter the deal by what Ruskin described in another context as “the inconvenience of the reappearance of a soul.”