Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prevent it. Does Mr. Lazarus think this can be done by recognizing and encouraging in our system of education "a frank striving for money?" I do not. Does Mr. Lazarus think that military and economic warfare can be averted in the future by the development of the instinct of self-assertion and self-advancement in the individual or in the group? I do not. It is not gushy sentimentalism or flat self-abnegation that I advocate; backsliding of the individual or unwarranted self-humiliation have no part in my theme. What I should like to see in our schools...
...side is going to win which has the greatest unity of purpose. But in order to realize the necessary unity of spirit in the war we have got to get rid of some of the obstacles which hinder the full apportionment of our common fighting strength and herd instinct. These obstacles are essentially three...
...must make a mighty effort,--and make it in force this year. The policy of another year's stalling before a grand Allied offensive in 1919 is dangerous. It takes no particular insight to see that Italy and France are tired under the strain of the war. The true instinct of immediate self-preservation which destroyed the Russian resistance is likely to spread to Western Europe if its peoples are called upon to face a fifth and a sixth year of war. We hope that Germany feels this influence first but we cannot count upon this. Half a million Americans...
What we suggest is that the American people be left alone to hate or not to hate exactly as their individual consciences and hearts decide. Hate is destructive, a terrible thing to arouse. But there are times when it is a sound instinct of self-preservation--as sound as the instinct to fight. Just whom we shall hate (if we are impelled to hate at all), whether only the Kaiser, or only the Junkers, or the whole German nation, is equally a matter for individual thrashing out. The only criterion we can insist upon is that we shall know...
...never safe to use this as proof that it will not. Only by alertness and power can the cubs be captured. The Freshmen, however, have both. They have had no University team to teach them how to tame the beast, yet they surely have the inherited instinct to do so. Coach Wallace, a veteran hunter and known of old in Princeton, has taught his pupils many ways to tame wild animals...