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Although Japan learned modern military science from Germany and naval science from England, Japanese samuraism instigated Hitlerism. The present world chaos, the barbaric condition or the rule of brute force, was created by Japan through a period of time. Therefore, the democracies are not only fighting nazism but the spread of samuraism. A hit of history will prove the fact that samuraism fostered nazism...
...hold upon all subsequent thought? Says Author Barzun: they "made final the separation between man and his soul." "Man was no longer a cherished creature of the gods. . . . Things were the only reality-indestructible matter in motion." Result of this apotheosis of matter: "A premium was put on fact, brute force, valueless existence and bare survival...
...this moment we should realize with unmistakable clarity who it is that, after 30 years of fruitful labor, was pushed aside by a power that has no other support in heaven or on earth than brute force alone. . . . [Professor Meyers was] one of the greatest lawyers of many countries and many periods. . . . This noble and true son of our nation . . . has been ousted from his post by the stranger who rules over us as our enemy. . . . We can but bow before superior power...
...women, a well of tears." Perhaps, as World War II and the war's changes closed over her, Virginia Woolf came to feel at last like war-shocked Septimus Smith, whose suicide she had described in Mrs. Dalloway: "Human nature, in short, was on him-the repulsive brute with the blood-red nostrils. . . . The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself...
...issue was rooted in the man's own obstinate independence. Independence was basic in the Willkie character-a tough, chip-on-the-shoulder independence that ranged from brute stubbornness to a rooted belief in the individual rights of man. Out of it had come the philosophy of his campaign: that the individual is greater than the State; that the purpose of Government is to make men free, since only free men will be able to build a productive and prosperous society. At Elwood he had said: "Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong...