Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace AssociationStephen Francis Weston World peace foundation, 1914 - 185 pages |
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... military and political ambitions , sec- tional zeal , national jealousy , the sensitiveness of each nation in matters of national honor , the glamour of the good and the beautiful under the sentiment of patriot- ism , the historic honor ...
... military and political ambitions , sec- tional zeal , national jealousy , the sensitiveness of each nation in matters of national honor , the glamour of the good and the beautiful under the sentiment of patriot- ism , the historic honor ...
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... Military Selection and its Effect on National Life Modern Battlefields A Nation's Opportunity The New Anglo - Saxon The New Brotherhood The New Corner Stone The New Era The New Nobility The New Patriotism The INTERCOLLEGIATE PEACE ...
... Military Selection and its Effect on National Life Modern Battlefields A Nation's Opportunity The New Anglo - Saxon The New Brotherhood The New Corner Stone The New Era The New Nobility The New Patriotism The INTERCOLLEGIATE PEACE ...
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... military past , not a sense of the grim tragedy of war , but traditions which award the highest meed of personal glory to the warrior . The roster of the world's heroes contains two classes of names - great soldiers and great altruists ...
... military past , not a sense of the grim tragedy of war , but traditions which award the highest meed of personal glory to the warrior . The roster of the world's heroes contains two classes of names - great soldiers and great altruists ...
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... military process for military purposes , and , with the passing of war , loses its warrant for existence . On the other hand , it is claimed that the under classes may come into the enjoyment of their in- alienable rights , common to ...
... military process for military purposes , and , with the passing of war , loses its warrant for existence . On the other hand , it is claimed that the under classes may come into the enjoyment of their in- alienable rights , common to ...
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... military system . Computing two hundred dollars a year as the average loss to society occasioned by the withdrawal of each soldier and sailor from productive toil , and adding this sum to the war budgets of the nations for the past ...
... military system . Computing two hundred dollars a year as the average loss to society occasioned by the withdrawal of each soldier and sailor from productive toil , and adding this sum to the war budgets of the nations for the past ...
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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...