Chapter I: Front Matter

THE FRUITS OF VICTORY

"THE GREAT ILLUSION" CONTROVERSY

'Mr. Angell's pamphlet was a work as unimposing in form as it was
daring in expression. For a time nothing was heard of it in public,
but many of us will remember the curious way in which ... "Norman
Angellism" suddenly became one of the principal topics of
discussion amongst politicians and journalists all over Europe.
Naturally at first it was the apparently extravagant and
paradoxical elements that were fastened upon most--that the whole
theory of the commercial basis of war was wrong, that no modern war
could make a profit for the victors, and that--most astonishing
thing of all--a successful war might leave the conquerors who
received the indemnity relatively worse off than the conquered who
raid it. People who had been brought up in the acceptance of the
idea that a war between nations was analogous to the struggle of
two errand boys for an apple, and that victory inevitably meant
economic gain, were amazed into curiosity. Men who had never
examined a Pacifist argument before read Mr. Angell's book. Perhaps
they thought that his doctrines sounded so extraordinarily like
nonsense that there really must be some sense in them or nobody
would have dared to propound them.'--_The New Stateman_, October
11, 1913.

'The fundamental proposition of the book is a mistake.... And the
proposition that the extension of national territory--that is the
bringing of a large amount of property under a single
administration--is not to the financial advantage of a nation
appears to me as illusory as to maintain that business on a small
capital is as profitable as on a large.... The armaments of
European States now are not so much for protection against conquest
as to secure to themselves the utmost possible share of the
unexploited or imperfectly exploited regions of the world.'--The
late ADMIRAL MAHAN.

'I have long ago described the policy of _The Great Illusion_ ...
not only as a childish absurdity but a mischievous and immoral
sophism.'--MR. FREDERIC HARRISON.

'Among the mass of printed books there are a few that may be
counted as acts, not books. _The Control Social_ was indisputably
one; and I venture to suggest to you that _The Great Illusion_ is
another. The thesis of Galileo was not more diametrically opposed
to current ideas than those of Norman Angell. Yet it had in the end
a certain measure of success.'--VISCOUNT ESHER.

'When all criticisms are spent, it remains to express a debt of
gratitude to Mr. Angell. He belongs to the cause of
internationalism--the greatest of all the causes to which a man can
set his hands in these days. The cause will not triumph by
economics. But it cannot reject any ally. And if the economic
appeal is not final, it has its weight. "We shall perish of
hunger," it has been said, "in order to have success in murder." To
those who have ears for that saying, it cannot be said too
often.'--_Political Thought in England, from Herbert Spencer to the
Present Day_, by ERNEST BARKER.

'A wealth of closely reasoned argument which makes the book one of
the most damaging indictments that have yet appeared of the
principles governing the relation of civilized nations to one
another.'--_The Quarterly Review._

'Ranks its author with Cobden amongst the greatest of our
pamphleteers, perhaps the greatest since Swift.'--_The Nation._

'No book has attracted wider attention or has done more to
stimulate thought in the present century than _The Great
Illusion_.'--_The Daily Mail._

'One of the most brilliant contributions to the literature of
international relations which has appeared for a very long
time.'--_Journal of the Institute of Bankers._

'After five and a half years in the wilderness, Mr. Norman Angell
has come back.... His book provoked one of the great controversies
of this generation.... To-day, Mr. Angell, whether he likes it or
not, is a prophet whose prophesies have come true.... It is hardly
possible to open a current newspaper without the eye lighting on
some fresh vindication of the once despised and rejected doctrine
of Norman Angellism.'--_The Daily News_, February 25, 1920.

THE
FRUITS OF VICTORY

A SEQUEL TO
"THE GREAT ILLUSION"

BY
NORMAN ANGELL

NEW YORK

THE CENTURY CO.

1921

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

PATRIOTISM UNDER THREE FLAGS
THE GREAT ILLUSION
THE FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL POLITY
WHY FREEDOM MATTERS
WAR AND THE WORKER
AMERICA AND THE WORLD STATE (AMERICA)
PRUSSIANISM AND ITS DESTRUCTION
THE WORLD'S HIGHWAY (AMERICA)
WAR AIMS
DANGERS OF HALF-PREPAREDNESS (AMERICA)
POLITICAL CONDITIONS OF ALLIED SUCCESS (AMERICA)
THE BRITISH REVOLUTION AND THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY (AMERICA)
THE PEACE TREATY AND THE ECONOMIC CHAOS

Copyright, 1921, by
THE CENTURY CO.

_Printed in the U. S. A._

To H. S.