THE LAW OF STRUGGLE - BY HYMAN SEGAL - CONTENTS - CHAPTER I. ........................................... 1 1 The Will to Struggle CHAPTER I I. 27 The Psychology of Struggle 111. ............................................ 45 CHAPTER Struggle as Morality CHAPTER IV. .............................................. 69 Struggle as State-craft V. ................................................ 84 CHAPTER The Economic Struggle CHAPTER VI. --------------.---------------------- 126 Struggle as War CHAPTER VII. 149 Struggle as Religion - Foreword - ON THE WAR AND THE BOOK - We HAVE promised ourselves that this War is to be the last. Still, how do we know We did not seek it, yet it came. We are in the grip of momentous currents, we know not how. Evidently, we still do not know the laws by which we live. Tho we have stored up great accumulations of miscellaneous, unrelated, unassimilated facts concerning ourselves, these accumulations have only served to make confusion worse confounded. And yet, the great problems with which the world is wrestling so bloodily to-day are compounded of the measure and quality of our self-knowledge. We still do not know our place in the scheme of things and the bl07s of the Germans resound- ing against the gates of Paris, beat also upon the faith in the hearts of men. If the Great War, which has descended upon us like a visitation from another world, is not really native to our true nature as human beings, why does it have such a hold upon us Whence does it derive its power to stretch forth its gruesome hand and drag us, open-eyed, protesting, horror-stricken, into its dread vortex Whv are we finallv fascinated by it and go esulting into the fray To accuse the world of inconsistency and hypocrisy...............