e-artnow presents Hilaire Belloc's most controversial and influential historical and sociological studies: The Servile State Definitions Our Civilisation was originally Servile How the Servile Institution was for a Time Dissolved How the Distributive State Failed The Capitalist State in Proportion as It Grows Perfect Grows Unstable The Stable Solutions of this Instability Socialism is the Easiest Apparent Solution of the Capitalist Crux The Reformers and Reformed Are Alike Making for the Servile State The Servile State Has Begun Europe and Faith What Was the Roman Empire? What Was the Church in the Roman Empire? What Was the «Fall» of the Roman Empire? The Beginning of the Nations What Happened in Britain? The Dark Ages The Middle Ages What Was the Reformation? The Defection of Britain The Jews The Thesis of This Book The Denial of the Problem The Present Phase of the Problem The General Cause of Friction The Special Causes of Friction The Cause of Friction Upon Our Side The Anti-Semite Bolshevism The Position in the World as a Whole The Present Relation Between the English State and the Jews Zionism Our Duty Their Duty Various Theories Habit or Law?