Word: fatherland
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...book it is most disappointing. It is not in the form of an argument to support his position. It is rather a wail that the socialistic parties of Austria and Germany have deserted the cause of internationalism to shout and fight for the Fatherland. The book is full of quotations from socialistic papers to show how the workers of the middle empires have yielded to the cause of nationalism. It is also a violent denunciation of Germany with its so-called "feudal-monarchical organization based upon a mighty capitalistic foundation". The bulk of the book, with its chapters...
...cannot see any reasonable excuse for eliminating this study. Some objections have been brought against it because text books often include passages that may arouse a latent love for the Fatherland, but this is not a sufficient cause for condemning the tongue. On the other hand, important reasons necessitate its retention. In the first place, many scientific and historical works used by the whole world were written by Teuton authors. Although the committee does not prevent men from studying these, yet it discourages younger scholars from reaching this store of knowledge. In the second place, men who know German...
...Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, who compose a committee which is endeavoring to bring about the breaking off of relations with the German Empire, greet you as an eminent citizen of the United States and the noble and loyal friend of Argentina, whose connection with your Fatherland you are intensifying for the most pure and disinterested reasons...
...When the telegram of The Fatherland arrived, asking for a holiday greeting as a contribution to the Christmas number, I was sitting in my psychological laboratory with a group of students engaged in a complicated psychological research. We were just experimenting on some subtle functions of the human memory, studying the conditions under which man remembers and forgets. Some of the results were very queer. We found that the mind does not hold or lose its memory ideas in a mechanical way, but that everything depends upon purposes; ideas which are gathered with a certain aim quickly fade away when...
...Such scientific experiments carried on with exact instruments seem world-far from the Christmas request of The Fatherland; and yet I cannot send a better message than the results of these researches in the psychological workshop. We feel that soon the World Christmas Tree will gleam with its myriads of peaceful candle flames; at last peace on earth seems near. And yet we all hardly look forward toward such a holy night for warring mankind without the secret fear that unholy struggle may soon disrupt the peoples of the globe again, and that the new peace may be merely...