An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation

The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation, by Thorstein Veblen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Author: Thorstein Veblen Release Date: February 27, 2007 [EBook #20694] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NATURE OF PEACE *** Produced by Irma Špehar, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file made using scans of public domain works at the University of Georgia.) AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF PEACE AND THE TERMS OF ITS PERPETUATION BY THORSTEIN VEBLEN New York B.W. HUEBSCH 1919 All rights reserved Copyright, 1917. By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Published April, 1917: Reprinted August, 1917. New edition published by B.W. HUEBSCH. January, 1919. [Pg vii] PREFACE It is now some 122 years since Kant wrote the essay, Zum ewigen Frieden. Many things have happened since then, although the Peace to which he looked forward with a doubtful hope has not been among them. But many things have happened which the great critical philosopher, and no less critical spectator of human events, would have seen with interest.