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Why Men Fight

by Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

10 chapters, about 54,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. THE PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH 7,600 words
2. THE STATE 7,200 words
3. WAR AS AN INSTITUTION 7,800 words
4. PROPERTY 7,300 words
5. EDUCATION 5,600 words
6. MARRIAGE AND THE POPULATION QUESTION 6,200 words
7. RELIGION AND THE CHURCHES 6,200 words
8. WHAT WE CAN DO 5,700 words
9. FOOTNOTES 300 words
10. DIVORCE AND WAR. 600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Divorce
• Education
• English people
• Institution
• Nation
• Nationalism
• Neutrality (philosophy)
• Policy
• State (polity)
• Subjectivism
• Syndicalism
• War
• Waverley (novel)

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