Word: burden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...grown, like the tale of a submarine's exploits, to twice the normal size, while the evening is evanescent. Seven hundred men have acquired the habit of seeing how the great city looks before the subways to Boston are running, and the Cambridge police force, taking up the burden the stars have left off, resumes his diurnal beat. Seven hundred men have seen with Pippa the morning at seven; although the lark and the snail are missing from the wing and the thorn...
...exemption of conscientious objectors to military service. That is a necessary, although theoretically not just, provision. Like the proverbial horse which refuses to quench its thirst, a man who will not fight, will not. Not Mr. Roosevelt, nor patriotism, nor the fear of death may force him. The burden of defending the irreconcilibly peaceful must be borne by those who prefer existence to peace...
...where (they say) the control of the state is less strict, objectors to war might be forced to the alternative of entering either the army or the tribal soup kettle. As it happens, we live in the United States, where men must work to live, but are spared the burden of fighting to live...
That was a valiant hope. But it was sadly untrue to what history and wisdom might teach us of the courses of revolutions. Freed from that social order and that political burden which had bound them from immemorial time, it was inevitable that the Russian people should grow exuberant with the intoxication of first liberty. Much as we, much as the Allies, might wish Russia to enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more...
This makes a democratic army. It does not throw the burden on the shoulders of those who are moved by an impulse of patriotism, excusing everybody else. Hard feelings would inevitably result if the nation's responsibility should be saddled on volunteers. There is vastly less reason for volunteering to go out to be shot down than for volunteering to pay one's taxes. How we should come out if the financial support of the nation were left on an optional basis, needs no diagram...