Armageddon, And After

The contents list discussions of problems of the future, lessons of the past and suggested reforms, alongside subjects including armaments, diplomacy and small nationalities. The preface says that young idealists must examine their creeds against their finest hopes and aspirations, whatever political or reforming names they choose. The preface calls for a new era of a spiritual and ethical type, with coarser forms of materialism banished from thought and life.

The historical discussion says that Europe drifted back into conflicting nationalities despite every apparent desire to re-establish the continent on better lines. The account says that autocratic governments used the Holy Alliance, an instrument of peace, to subject smaller nationalities and destroy popular freedom. The discussion of a collective European conscience acknowledges the speculative character of the conception and the conflict between collective constraint and energetic patriotism.