sort of a ruldaarj' share in these gains, and that this residouy share in some manner exceeds the whole of the gains secured.
1 See Chapter X.
absurdly impossible cornea presently to be accepted ae a matter of course. Hitherto the cumulative augmentation of war expenditures and of war animus shows no sign of slackening. One after another, the states that have offered aorae show of peaceable inclinations have been drawn into the international game of competitive annaments, as they have one after another become ambitious to push the enterprises of their business men in the international markets. An armament is serviceable only if it is relatively large ; its absolute magnitude is a matter of no particular consequence for competitive politics. It is its comparative size that counts. Hence the greater the several armaments, the greater the political need of greater armaments, and the prompter the resentment of injuries and the livelier the felt need of offending and of taking offence. A progressively larger proportion of the nation's forces are withdrawn from industry and devoted to warlike ends. In this cumulative diversion of effort to warlike ends a point is presently reached beyond which the question of armament is no longer, What amount of warlike expenditure is needed to extend or maintain biwiness traffic? but rather, What amount will the nation's resources bear? But the progression does not stop at that point ; witness the case of Italy, France, and Germany, where the war drain has visibly impaired the industrial efficiency
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of the several nations concerned, but where the burden still goes on growing, with no stoppingplace in sight. England and, more particularly,