Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...before. It is the desire of everyone that mankind be so organized that war will be an impossibility. But to be prepared is no more provoking war, than it would be to abolish the police of Boston, or any superior governmental force the object of which in every civilized nation, is to maintain peace...
...been dragged in to the conflict against their will, and it is inconceivable that the United States will ever desire war, but if the catastrophe does come, it is every man's duty to his country to take the place that will be necessary for the protection of the nation. The proposition is not to go into the regular army, but simply to fit ourselves for the defense of the country when the need comes...
When undergraduates handle a "live" subject such as the war, they can hardly be expected--as individuals--to be otherwise than partisan. When the leader of a nation at war says "God is on our side," thereby implying that He is not on anyone else's he at least courts satirical comment from those individuals who believe in an impartial Diety. "Gott Mit Uns" is the expression of one man's opinion, honored with a prize because it is well put together, and not because it takes issue with Professor Meyer's people. It is not a Harvard prize poem...
...thinks the cause of peace at all worth while can be honest with himself and at the same time belittle the difficulties which lie ahead. Peace is essentially a state of mind. Its progress among civilized nations today depends upon enlightenment in simple self-interest. It devolves upon every man who has seen the futility of war and felt the imperative need for some constructive organization to take the place of brute force, to constitute himself a perpetual centre of propaganda and education for others. Only thus can knowledge of the basis of international relationship penetrate from...
...paciflists argued that the camps are unnecessary and harmful in a nation which is striving to maintain peace, and that the time spent in them could be better used in constructive work...