Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Logic...
There is fascination and topical interest in Napoleon's hodgepodge. Back of every chapter lies the self-portrait of a dictator who, like his successors of the present century, made the so-called "logic" of a situation his only criterion of right & wrong. His smug account of an episode during his conquest of Italy...
Prince X (in the book he is nameless) delivers his credo in a singing, quasi-biblical monologue. He warns his tribe against becoming "sedentaries" and cherishing worldly goods, cautions them that man's spirit, not logic and reason, must govern their lives. So far, Prince X sounds almost like a Christian. He is not; he is a Nietzschean. He disdains pity and charity, preaches the importance of the here & now and a disregard for the future. His rule is absolute and his subjects may not question him: "He who questions is seeking, primarily, the abyss...
...thought Vag, how can one remain impartial in a football stadium on a brisk fall day? Is it not better to cast logic to the winds and wave the dear old flag and be bloody but unbowed...
MacArthur had a single, paramount conviction; no matter what, Formosa had to be denied to the enemy-an end which the Administration was also trying to achieve. His statement was a complete military justification of that policy, packed with compelling military logic. In the hands of a hostile power, he wrote, "Formosa would be an unsinkable aircraft carrier and submarine tender, ideally located" to checkmate the U.S. "Nothing could be more fallacious than the threadbare argument of those who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific that if we defend Formosa we alienate continental Asia. Those who speak thus...