Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fortunately those who control England's war policy have too much human wisdom to attempt a course in plan and achievement so vain. The law of requital is the law of the feud, whereby hate for the enemy is born and fostered in generation after generation, till the sum of accumulated hate will end in equal destruction. It is the law of the mob, which strives to repay by brutal sin the commission of a brutal sin. The talonic justice that demands suffering for the offender equal to that which he has inflicted is an outworn creed, fit only...
...airmen who manned Germany's raiding machines who will be punished. It will not be those stern minds which ordered the raid, nor the nourishers of that fierce policy of conquest which has led Germany on through the ruin of nations and the ruin of our frail human morality to the goal for which she would almost pay her life. It is not the workers of evil who would suffer by any scheme of revenge that might be planned...
...make pretence to any small degree of wisdom deny that the prohibition of intoxicants would save for our nation resources in men and material that we cannot in any circumstances afford to lose. The material wastage annually is tabulated in billions of pounds. The human wastage cannot be computed. Statistics have been carefully gathered to show the extent of this drain on our national wealth. Contrary to the ignorant wisdom of proverb-mouthing fellows, figures do not lie. As a nation we must face without blindness the inevasible truth that the pleasure of alcohol has weakened sadly our strength...
...sight, and he actually accomplished his object and won at the same time the love of his pupils, as is attested by the universal appellation of "Johnny Williams" affectionately applied to him. He not only taught the Greek language, but he made his students see the Greek people as human beings. There are few American colleges which have not today a course modelled on his "Greek 10," which showed the Greeks as they lived...
...essential truth in understanding such a staggering total is that we have in the abundance of our riches allowed the diverting of a tremendous share of our annual production for purposes which can in no manner be regarded as of primary or secondary or cental human value. Such wastage might well be allowed in times of peace, when all men as a matter of course waste their time and their strength. It can not to the least degree be allowed in time of war, when our utmost strength is called upon that we as a brave nation may achieve triumph...