Word: human
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intrudes in his personal capacity, quite unnecessarily, is not altogether in tune with the rest of the story. Despite, however, its occasional lapses into the immature and inept, the story as a whole is vividly and consistently imagined, vigorously told, and shows in several instances an acute understanding of human motive. Mr. Henderson's study, on the other hand, though simpler in theme, is much more perfectly and richly done. It is, indeed, a remarkably perceptive piece of work, one which many a well-known professional need not blush to have written. In delicacy of feeling and description it approaches...
Business has its credit system. So has life. If we stopped to verify the word of every one with whom we were obliged to deal in the course of the day, human affairs would be paralyzed. The only way the world can go on is on the assumption that people around us are telling the truth. And it is because of the hideous inconvenience and uncertainty he occasions that the whole world detests a liar...
...your duty. If you go and drive an ambulance in Italy or a motor-truck in France, or clean the motor of an airplane behind the lines somewhere, you will be doing a useful and necessary work; but if you devote yourselves to that you will be squandering human resources. There will be need of officers, always more officers: you are not only a Reserve Officers' Training Corps, but you constitute the reserve of the officers now in the American Army. Don't forget that...
...council. They both are actuated by the principle that democratic forms must be sacrificed in times of national emergency. They allow for healthy criticism, but they demand a complete freedom from petty interference and partisan dissension. In America and England there have been mistakes and many of them. Human nature is far from infallible, as are political bodies. But the errors of centralization are in no way comparable to those of partisanship. Lloyd George stands as a great figure who has led his country well. His principles are sound and his results as good as can at this time...
...service in the war, especially where there is personal danger; and yet to do so may not be the greatest service he can render to the country. Men who are responsible for the conduct of the war, who see the question in the large, who are thinking of the human resources of the nation as a whole, seem to be generally of opinion that college students will be in the end more profitable if they continue their education until they are of age, and then use that education for the benefit of the army (or in civil life...