Word: idealists
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...even the German Defense Ministry's scar-jawed observer relaxed his set vigilance and smiled when Roiderer sniffled between sobs, "I am against war. I am a pacifist. I wanted to write articles with the material in my little notebook from the pacifist philosophical viewpoint. I am an idealist. I couldn't sell my articles because American editors are so materialistic. Almost nothing of mine was accepted by anybody and in all I received just $13. I wrote not as an enemy of Germany but as an enemy...
...action of France in clinging to this last sepulchre of international action is most significant today when in Europe disillusion stalks armed with bayonets, and faith in anything except one's strong right arm marks a nation as a whimsical idealist. France's fortitude, if carried to its ultimate conclusion, will be a far greater factor in maintaining peace than appears on the surface. The old system of turning the entire country over to the military staff at the first sign of storm clouds was an enormous factor in preventing the localization of the conflict in 1914. When two mobilized...
...Between these two branches of learning a distinct cleavage has grown. Science dominates the modern world--science in the narrow sense. The business-man, unquestionably master of our civilization, is a scientist. Persons, things, actions, even philosophies must justify themselves by the standards of the market-place. "Theorist" and "idealist" have become terms of contempt...
...reason, and a belief in man's ability to progress. No longer could a retiring scholar take the lead; the stage was set for violent partisan action. Luther took the lead in the drama and the procession of the centuries has left Erasmus behind, a magnificent, tragic scholar and idealist who thought too much...
...their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist he was without a forerunner or a model. Above all he was a describer of beauty--a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature...