Word: mad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Peace, hides the grinning skeleton of other wars; of national and personal deceit; of the advance repudiation of the very obligations they propose to take; of the absolute indifference to Right; of the utter lack of aggregate and individual honor. All these are gladly lost, sunk, destroyed, in the mad stress to achieve unholy means to unholy ends. It is hopeless to treat for peace with sovereigns so entirely turned from right to wrong thought. But one thing these peace offers with baleful, hidden purposes will do: they will fix forever our determination to conquer this Intolerable Thing...
...sympathize with, and love the French, but it's the British to whom I give my respect. They've got the 'spirit of the bayonet'; they've changed their easy going temperament and, taught by bitter experience, answer the cry 'Kamerad' with a short sharp jab; they're fighting mad, playing the game for all it's worth. System? They've got everything down to a fine point; a great part of the time the Tommies don't even realize that the games they are playing are developing just the traits of character and strength of muscle necessary to exterminate...
Plainly the Advocate board is print-mad and over-endowed with the price of typesetting. Plainly they are bent on assassinating their own reputations. Most plainly of all, they do not realize that war should not worsen the Advocate. Standards of any college magazine at this time should come up, and easily could come up. Many men in College--even Freshmen--are writing good stuff about brothers under wooden crosses, and about the ambulance work that they have done; many men in English 5 and English 12 and English 31 and English 6 could give lessons to these editors...
...such men is ill, then let their thought be obliterated, for we have enough of sickly thought. If the thought of such men is irreconcilable from the eternal desire of egoism to be individual, then let their thought be obliterated, for we have enough of egoisms which are mad with the consciousness of themselves. But if the thought of such men is strong and clear, however strange it may seem to us, let us not dare, for the very fear of truth that is in us, to obliterate it, lest we be one with those who crucified righteousness...
...will be fortunate, it will be fortunate for Russia and the world, if no Napoleon arises, mad for conquest in the name of liberty...