Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace AssociationStephen Francis Weston World peace foundation, 1914 - 185 pages |
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... future . It is this fact that gives such peculiar importance to the work of the Intercol- legiate Peace Association ... future . In brief , it is building more for the future than for the immediate present . The millennium of ...
... future . It is this fact that gives such peculiar importance to the work of the Intercol- legiate Peace Association ... future . In brief , it is building more for the future than for the immediate present . The millennium of ...
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... future translators of ideals into action shall be imbued with right principles of life and of human relations . To this end it is sought to cultivate the right sentiment against war , and for international peace , among the ...
... future translators of ideals into action shall be imbued with right principles of life and of human relations . To this end it is sought to cultivate the right sentiment against war , and for international peace , among the ...
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... future effec- tiveness in shaping international policies and practices . " Finally , while these contests have chiefly in mind the shaping of the public opinion of coming generations , they are by no means a negligible factor in their ...
... future effec- tiveness in shaping international policies and practices . " Finally , while these contests have chiefly in mind the shaping of the public opinion of coming generations , they are by no means a negligible factor in their ...
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... future writers of orations , for there is no objection to choosing subjects previously used . Even if there is some duplication of thought , it makes little difference , since the contests are seldom held twice in the same place ...
... future writers of orations , for there is no objection to choosing subjects previously used . Even if there is some duplication of thought , it makes little difference , since the contests are seldom held twice in the same place ...
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... future the nations that have all these centuries bowed before the god of war shall own eternal allegiance to the Prince of Peace . And " of the increase of His government and of Peace there shall be no end . " THE WASTE OF WAR ― OF ...
... future the nations that have all these centuries bowed before the god of war shall own eternal allegiance to the Prince of Peace . And " of the increase of His government and of Peace there shall be no end . " THE WASTE OF WAR ― OF ...
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Page 32 - The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood; For it will bring again to Earth Her long-lost Poesy and Mirth; Will send new light on every face, A kingly power upon the race. And till it come, we men are slaves, And travel downward to the dust of graves.
Page 79 - If it only slew men, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey. Here is the evil of war, that man, made to be the brother, becomes the deadly foe of his kind ; that man, whose duty it is to mitigate suffering, makes the infliction of suffering his study and end ; that man, whose office it is to avert and heal the wounds which come from nature's powers, makes researches into nature's laws, and arms himself with her most awful forces, that he may become the destroyer of his race.
Page 32 - Break the dead branches from the path: Our hope is in the aftermath — Our hope is in heroic men, Star-led to build the world again. To this Event the ages ran: Make way for Brotherhood — make way for Man.
Page 34 - Put off, put off your mail, ye kings, and beat your brands to dust, A surer grasp your hands must know, your hearts a better trust; Nay, bend aback the lance's point and break the helmet bar ; A noise is on the morning winds, but not the noise of war.
Page 174 - ... which are justiciable in their nature by reason of being susceptible of decision by the application of the principles of law or equity...
Page 97 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Page xiii - God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth...
Page 75 - We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort ; the man who never wrongs his neighbor ; who is prompt to help a friend ; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
Page 67 - Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
Page 54 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given ; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end...