** INTRODUCTION

** Chapter One. The Philosophies of Misery

*** 1. Imaginary Cause Theories

*** 2. Secondary Cause Theories

*** 3. The Cultural Theory of Social Misery

*** 4. The National Theory of Social Misery

** Chapter Two. The Power Theory of Aggression

*** 1. The Cause of Social Brutality

*** 2. The Origin of Crime-condoning Philosophies

*** 3. Critical Magnitudes

*** 4. The Cause of War

*** 5. Lead us not into Temptation

*** 6. Why Russia's Leaders are beyond the Reach of Reason

*** 7. Objections to the Power Theory

*** 8. Power and Size in the United States

** Chapter Three. Disunion Now

*** 2. The Elimination of War Causes

*** 3. Harmlessness of Small-state Wars

*** 4. The Truce of God

*** 5. The Curse of Unification

** Chapter Four. Tyranny in a Small-State World

*** 2. Hitler in Bavaria and Long in Louisiana

*** 3. The Mattress Principle

** Chapter Five. The Physics of Politics

*** 2. Unity versus Balance

*** 3. The Physics of Politics

*** 4. Mobile versus Stable Balance

*** 5. Division -- the Principle of Progress

*** 6. Summation and Hell

** Chapter Six. Individual and Average Man

*** 2. The Average Man

*** 3. The Collectivisation of Individuals in Large States

*** 4. The Meaning of Neighbourhood

*** 5. The Ideal Size of States

*** 6. External Democracy

*** 7. Freedom from Issues

*** 8. The Unifiers, Aristotle, Shaw, and God

** Chapter Seven. The Glory of the Small

*** 1. Cultural Diversion of Aggressive Energies

*** 2. Relief from Social Servitude

*** 3. The Variety of Human Experience

*** 4. The Testimony of History

*** 5. Romans or Florentines

*** 6. The Universal State -- Symbol and Cause of Cultural Decline

** Chapter Eight. The Efficiency of the Small

*** 2. The Creation of Necessities

*** 3. From Princes to Paupers

*** 4. The Size Theory of Business Cycles

*** 5. The Reason for the Illusion of Progress

*** 6. The Law of Diminishing Productivity

*** 7. Small versus Big Business Units

*** 8. Economic Union

** Chapter Nine. Union Through Division

*** 1. Successful Federal Experiments

*** 2. Other Successful Federations

*** 3. Unsuccessful Federal Experiments

*** 4. The Principle of Government

** Chapter Ten. The Elimination of Great Powers

*** 1. Division through Proportional Representation

*** 2. Restoration of Europe’s Old Nations

*** 3. Preservation of Small-state Pattern

** Chapter Eleven. But Will It Be Done?

** Chapter Twelve. The American Empire

*** 1. The Road of Bigness

*** 2. The Anti-empire

*** 3. Empire by Implication

*** 4. Empire by Attitude

*** 5. Empire by Sacrifice

*** 6. The Two United Nations

*** 7. War, World State, and a World of Little States