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President Hibben then stated his idea of the real value of a man to a community, saying that it "did not depend upon his being a so-called law-abiding citizen; his conduct must also conform to the standard of some self-imposed law. . . . Fear of penalties at best can only be a restraining influence. Respect for law based upon fear alone has little or no value in the life of a community . . . . It becomes more and more evident that no government can make man moral...
...lecturer began the second part of his speech by making a distinction between the phrase "society of nations" as he used it, and the League of Nations. After comparing the individual as related to the nation, to the nation as related to the world, President Hibben remarked that "upon a superficial observation of our natural resources, of our commanding financial superiority as the creditor nation of the world, and our industrial progress unequalled in history, it seems to be a reasonable judgement that our nation so highly favored is self-contained and self-sufficient. A more profound observation of ourselves...
National isolation, from a practical point of view, he styled a "short sighted policy." Then enlarging upon the point. President Hibben said. "In the first place we can't be isolated even if we choose to be.... We are connected by more or less intimate ties with all the nations of the earth. In our commercial relations, which no one can deny are essentially practical, we are dependent upon the stability and prosperity of the nations with which we have business intercourse." He urged furthermore, that the United States should "recognize the importance of our "manners" in dealing with...
Continuing on this theme, President Hibben took a very definite stand in regard to the World Court, declaring that he feels it is "unfortunate that there have been seemingly insuperable obstacles which have prevented our country from taking part formally and actively in the World Court. Our joining the World Court has seemed to me to represent the irreducible minimum of our international obligations...
...speech delivered last night by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University is indicative of an encouraging tendency in American thought of the present day. The general title of the Godkin Lecture, "Free Government and the Duties of Free Citizenship" is a question of interest and importance to all citizens, and one upon which public opinion is ever inquiringly active. Any light which may be cast upon the point is welcome. In President Hibben's address we find the head of one great university placing his opinions on this vital matter before the members of another university. The institutions...