Word: logically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worried last week was the venerable, stoop-shouldered Bishop of Winchester by the British public's "strange complacency" in the face of blackout road accidents-18,000 deaths since the war began. With high moral fervor, but not too much logic, the Bishop demanded "whether the continued spectacle of suffering may not be dimming the compassion which normally we feel." Whether or not British compassion was dimming, within eight London days...
When they find some definite action into which they can sink their fangs the people seem to forget or to ignore the logic of the "outrages." What did the newspaper editors of the nation think Hitler would do when our Navy was told to fire on his ships? Smile benignly on us, say "danke schoen" and turn back to his knackwurst? If we're going to shoot, so's he; two can play at that game. He has nothing at all to gain from letting American ships loaded with supplies pass by his undersea blockade unharmed. America is unneutral already...
...logic of helping Russia is inescapable. The United States has committed itself to the defeat of Hitler; Russia is fighting Hitler and helping in this defeat; therefore the United States should help, Russia. This line of reasoning is sound, convincing, and simple. But no, now we are to help Russia because Stalin has a sense of humor; because the Russians are devotees of religion. This line of reasoning is dangerous and will have a tremendous effect in canceling out the good ends for which we have taken sides in the conflict. It is not a question, of the end justifying...
...Chinese had no concrete cause for worry. The U.S., they might have known, would not negotiate with Japan on the lopsided basis that the Japanese are pleased to call equitable. An agreement was as remote as the moon. But people in the position of the Chinese needed more than logic to sustain them. For four years they had cowered in dugouts, trekked thousands of miles, hungered, frozen, fought, died. What they had fought for, they told themselves bitterly, not even a friendly power could give away. And now, while Japanese troops hammered at Changsha (see p. 28), Washington...
...moral significance. Aztec theology held that in bygone eras mankind had been successively wiped out by jaguars, by hurricanes, by fiery volcanic rains. The Aztecs in 1519 believed that their world would in time end amid horrendous earthquakes controlled by the Sun God. So with a relentless if grisly logic, they propitiated the deities at all costs, offering up mankind's most precious possession, its own lifeblood...