Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there any limitations to the principle of patriotism? Is dishonesty, for example, is the breaking of solemn treaties, is ruthless inhumanity to a weaker neighbor, justified by a belief that it will conduce to the prosperity of one's own people? Is a nation morally right in seizing anything it can obtain by force or fraud, or has it a duty to deal fairly with others, and respect their rights? Would Cain have acted properly if, instead of being a single individual, he had been fifty millions to Abel's twenty-five millions and had called himself a nation...
...this matter of patriotism it is the solemn duty of every man to think clearly what, if any, are its moral limitations, and what duties and responsibilities it involves. It is his duty to try to discover when and where and how other moral obligations limit those that he owes to his country, and how far his country is limited in its moral freedom of action by the duties that it owes to other portions of mankind. Future wars, future calamities, future miseries incalculable, or, on the other hand, future prosperity, future intellectual and spiritual advance, may depend upon solving...
...producing the semblance of a public opinion by a general shout has progressed greatly within a generation. It is easy to provoke such a shout for a catchword which embodies a principle good in itself, without a perception on the part of the crowd that it has its limit, and that they are in effect being urged beyond that limit. Group psychology has been studied until we are familiar with its principles and its use. Professor Dicey remarked, in criticising the historical method of studying human problems, that when the cause of an abuse has been explained the abuse itself...
...action immediately. At the present rate the applications will be closed soon. The authorities will give Harvard men every consideration so that they may be well enough represented to asume the same leadership in the Business School that they hold in the other graduate schools; but once the registration limit has been reached they will be as much in the cold as anyone else...
...boat troubled some of the oarsmen, but on the whole the appearance of the eight in the shell was satisfactory. For the remaining days of the week Coach Haines plans to continue long rows at a high stroke intended to develop the men for the long race; he will limit competition to brushes with the second University crew...