Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace AssociationStephen Francis Weston World peace foundation, 1914 - 185 pages |
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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...
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 174 - It is further agreed, however, that in cases in which the parties disagree as to whether or not a difference is subject to arbitration under Article I of 'this treaty, that question shall be submitted to the joint high commission of inquiry; and if all or all but one of the members of the commission agree and report that such difference is within the scope of Article I, it shall be referred to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of this treaty.
Page xiii - God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth...
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 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 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 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.