Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...being written, as history is generally written, unknown to the writers, although they may feel some deep stirring of the pen that records. Knowing that the past is dissevered from the future, our young men of imagination might well be exalted to lofty and far-reaching hopes for their nation...
...such a time it is folly to make use of our resources in any other way save to promote that cause which we have undertaken, as an earnest nation, with our whole hearts. We have no surplus for the spendthrift ways of riches. It is folly to waste in even the least degree that natural fertility with which we are entrusted as warders for less fortunate peoples. And the folly of nations may well be the most evil of sins...
Every year the fertility of this nation is taxed at the rate of six billions pounds of foodstuffs which go into the production of forms of alcohol which have no social nor economic value. That is enough, as our economists have shown, at a low estimate to provide sustenance for seven million men for a year. Such figures might be compiled indefinitely. They may be gained from any governmental report...
...Such wastage might well be allowed in times of peace, when all men as a matter of course waste their time and their strength. It can not to the least degree be allowed in time of war, when our utmost strength is called upon that we as a brave nation may achieve triumph...
Those six billion annual pounds represent nourishment for all the fighting men of Russia. Given to Germany, they would render England's long and arduous blockade a failure. Given to England, they would cause the shipping shortage to become a forgotten terror. They may mean the difference to our nation between sufficiency and want. They may mean to our cause the difference between justification and defeat...