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League of Nations Failed to Pacify the World

       12. The Breakdown of “Finance” and Social Morale after Versailles

       13. 1933: “Progress” Comes to a Halt

       Book the Second: The Days After Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration

       1. The London Conference: the Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; The Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms

       2. The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition

       3. Disintegration and Crystallization in the Social Magma. The Gangster and Militant Political Organizations

       4. Changes in War Practice after the World War

       5. The Fading Vision of a World Pax: Japan Reverts to Warfare

       6. The Western Grip on Asia Relaxes

       7. The Modern State and Germany

       8. A Note on Hate and Cruelty

       9. The Last War Cyclone, 1940-50

       10. The Raid of the Germs

       11. Europe in 1960

       12. America in Liquidation

       Book the Third: The World Renascence: The Birth of the Modern State

       1. The Plan of the Modern State Is Worked Out

       2. Thought and Action: the New Model of Revolution

       3. The Technical Revolutionary

       4. Prophets, Pioneers, Fanatics and Murdered Men

       5. The First Conference at Basra: 1965

       6. The Growth of Resistance to the Sea and Air Ways Control

       7. Intellectual Antagonism to the Modern State

       8. The Second Conference at Basra, 1978

       9. “Three Courses of Action”

       10. The Life-Time Plan

       11. The Real Struggle for Government Begins

       Book the Fourth: The Modern State Militant

       1. Gap in the Text

       2. Melodramatic Interlude

       3. Futile Insurrection

       4. The Schooling of Mankind

       5. The Text Resumes: The Tyranny of the Second Council

       6. Æsthetic Frustration: The Note Books of Ariston Theotocopulos

       7. The Declaration of Mégève

       Book the Fifth: The Modern State in Control of Life

       1. Monday Morning in the Creation of a New World

       2. Keying Up the Planet

       3. Geogonic Planning

       4. Changes in the Control of Behaviour

       5. Organization of Plenty

       6. The Average Man Grows Older and Wiser

       7. Language and Mental Growth

       8. Sublimation of Interest

       9. A New Phase in the History of Life

      Introduction

       The Dream Book of Dr. Philip Raven

       Table of Contents

      The unexpected death of Dr. Philip Raven at Geneva in November 1930 was a very grave loss to the League of Nations Secretariat. Geneva lost a familiar figure — the long bent back, the halting gait, the head quizzically on one side — and the world lost a stimulatingly aggressive mind. His incessant devoted work, his extraordinary mental vigour, were, as his obituary notices testified, appreciated very highly by a world-wide following of distinguished and capable admirers. The general public was suddenly made aware of him.

      It is rare that anyone outside the conventional areas of newspaper publicity produces so great a stir by dying; there were accounts of him in nearly every paper of importance from Oslo to New Zealand and from Buenos Aires to Japan — and the brief but admirable memoir by Sir Godfrey Cliffe gave the general reader a picture of an exceptionally simple, direct, devoted