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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other motive for preparedness,--the desire to enforce our righteous will,--at first sight looks worthy. But it is not; first, because no nation's will, even when not mistaken nor wilfully misled, can ever guarantee itself as righteous; and, secondly, because rights and wrongs are not vertically but horizontally stratified, and national boundaries are no longer,--can never be again,--ethical lines of cleavage. Are we more nearly divine than the other nations, that we trust ourselves to do always the right thing? No, indeed; moreover, our national desire to back righteousness varies inversely as our military power...
...methods, that President Fitch's letter so plainly portrays. When will these leaders of men in religion and culture turn their scrutiny and brilliant thoughts to the real meaning of "national honor, human justice, universal principles of righteousness gradually becoming articulate in international law"? When does or can Force ever guarantee the continued existence of these high ends? Force can and does achieve victory, but whether that victory is the victory of truth and justice or simply and solely the victory of the "great battalions" depends upon pure chance. In Europe, for instance, it depends upon some obscure Balkan "statesman...
...library has two copies of the most valuable and important book ever written on fishing, the first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler." Copies of this first edition, which at the time of publication sold for 18 pence were worth $60 in 1847 and in 1889 their value has risen to $225. The high-wate mark was reached in 1907, however, when one of these first editions sold for $6,450. The library also contains a Flemish work published in 1492, which is the earliest known treatise on fishing. the original manuscript of the English translation, together with...
...library is especially rich in illustrated book on all the different phases of fishing, including even whaling. The collection is the most complete in the world in English, French, Danish, Dutch German Italian, Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish official documents on fishing. It also contains practically all the official documents ever published by the United Sates on the subject...
...time when all Europe is concerned chiefly with discovering and putting to use new methods of blowing to pieces and patching up the human body, a greater interest than ever before attaches to the medical profession. Every day the invention of some new fiendish device of slaughter brings with it the counter-discovery of a new remedy. Day by day the problems of the physician become more intricate; and the field of medical science is broadened by leaps and bounds...