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...just war. First, he said, the motive must be just: "Those wars may be defined as just which avenge injuries" or repel aggression. A just war must be fought with Christian love for the enemy-the Sermon on the Mount was supposed to be followed as "an inward disposition." No one, wrote the saint, "is fit to inflict punishment save the one who has first overcome hate in his heart. The love of enemies admits of no dispensation, but love does not exclude wars of mercy waged by the good...
...soul moves toward greater awareness through evolution and involution, through a Path of Pursuit and a Path of Return. Men on the outward path assert their willfulness in the physical world and accumulate knowledge of its temporal objects and fleeting sensations. Through wisdom and meditation, men on the inward path gradually break down the separateness of the individual self, and realize their identification with the eternal, divine Self which is one with all of nature...
...listed in The Statesman's Year-Book fulfill a real function. In part, their significance is upheld by an old ally in a new guise: nationalism. The more closely peoples are brought together by high-speed communications and economic interdependence, the more they seem to react by turning inward to their national traditions. And to embody the sense of national integrity and unity when the going is tough, a king can do things that a President or a Prime Minister cannot...
Freud, on the other hand, viewed self-destruction as a purely psychological phenomenon with the same essential structure as depression. He held that it is a form of aggression against someone loved turned inward upon the self, because the self is identified with the loved one. Later, Freud formulated his famed "death instinct," into which suicide fitted neatly as death's triumph over the life instinct. Many psychoanalysts do not accept the death instinct, but most modern thinking swings between versions of Freud's psychodynamics of depression on the one hand and Durkheim's sociological factors...
...church, and in much of Europe the practice has been observed by hardly anyone but the clergy. While declaring that abstinence was no longer binding under pain of sin, the bishops urged the faithful to preserve the custom, particularly during the Lenten season, as "an outward sign of inward spiritual values...