Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American people, as has been noted often by men who understand their temperament, are emotional to an unusual degree. That emotionalism has been quickened to unexpected intensity by our entrance into the German War. Whereas before we were content to view rather calmly, and in a sense of abstract interest, the outcome of the war, we have now become absorbed in it with our whole hearts...
...United States. Even lawyers and diplomats of international fame find the settling of questions contained in this issue a delicate and puzzling matter. College man, although often as ignorant about the duties and obligations of the United States as less educated men, are more eager to discuss abstract issues than one dealing with a change in the mode of appointing judges...
...must lay hold of great issues he must take his stand definitely upon the large questions of the day. How many of us try to satisfy this aim by pondering a few minutes over admission to the Union or the Smoker question? What we need to do is to abstract time for the study of basic principles. The college man never realizes how much spare time he has. Any Law School man will verify that. Why not use some of this spare time to create an individual and constructive idealism? On this firm basis only can we go out into...
...Harvard still retains her right to be considered internationally tolerant, for it is the bravery of her graduates in the abstract that she is proud to honor. And she is no less international in feeling because she pays fitting tribute to courage and true devotion to ideals...
...international conciliation. In regard to peace and its accompanying attributes, Mr. Angell writes: "What I have to urge upon your attention is not the desirability of peace in the sense of the cessation of combat, still less, of a cosmopolitanism which asks that you shall, in obedience to some abstract ideal of instinctive or intuitive origin, sacrifice national preferences and characteristics, or even prejudices. Indeed, I am not urging any cut-and-dried political doctrine or dogma at all. What I want to urge is the open-minded consideration of certain facts and occurrences, the significance of which...