Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following editorial appearing in the Nation sets forth briefly the growth of Princeton in the last decade. The article is as follows...
...devitalizing and pernicious influence,"--this is the epithet applied to intercollegiate debating by a writer in a recent number of the Nation. The correspondent charges that debating breeds insincerity, logical trickery, emotional dishonesty. It is, he asserts, "The worst possible training for public life . . . I do not believe any American with the forensic training of an American University ever achieved honorable success in public life without consciously rejecting all that he ever learned in these debating teams...
...fortifications which we have or might build, as being perfectly useless in repelling an invasion. We must realize that we owe our present and somewhat false sense of security to England's navy, but England is at war with the most up-to-date, wide-awake, and militarily progressive nation on the globe, and it would not be giving the nation which has already astonished us with such marvelous inventions in artillery, due credit to presume that the big ships tied up in Kiel will remain outclassed in firing range or that their engineers are overlooking their opportunities...
...belligerents been able to make an invasion from the sea? Can it be said that this war has shown anything but the futility of attempting over-seas operations against modern coast defenses and naval protection? Given adequate coast-defenses--and these I for one do not oppose--from what nation need we, after the lessons of the present war, fear any successful attack from...
...other motive for preparedness,--the desire to enforce our righteous will,--at first sight looks worthy. But it is not; first, because no nation's will, even when not mistaken nor wilfully misled, can ever guarantee itself as righteous; and, secondly, because rights and wrongs are not vertically but horizontally stratified, and national boundaries are no longer,--can never be again,--ethical lines of cleavage. Are we more nearly divine than the other nations, that we trust ourselves to do always the right thing? No, indeed; moreover, our national desire to back righteousness varies inversely as our military power...