Word: planet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Paris have brought even more clearly to our attention an essential fact that the probable formation of a League of Nations tempts us constantly to forget: namely, that though war may be restricted, reduced in intensity, limited in size and scope, it can never be forever eradicated from this planet as long as man remains warm-blooded, and ideals and principles of right endure for him to defend...
...This planet can no more be moulded into a community of thought than it can be forged or frozen into a single climate. Geography's constitution may not be amended by Europe's majority vote...
...part which our nation is to play in the politics of the world. Who is there now who thinks that the greatest good which might come to us from this war is great prosperity? Who is there who conceives of Europe and her agony as the woes of another planet, to be scientifically investigated and discussed, but never to be partaken? Who is there who trusts to the Monroe doctrine the wide sea, and the inherited flintlock over the fireplace, to keep us from the ambitions and intrigues of martial peoples? Who is there who thinks as he thought before...
Many men have tried to establish communication with Mars. From the most star-gazing professor of stellar history radiographing scientific inquiries, to the youngest Boy Scout wig-wagging questions about the baseball score, men of various degrees of wisdom have talked with the unheeding planet. Mars has been unresponsive. Perhaps that is because Mars is a gentleman and refuses to speak without a proper introduction to a chance acquaintance, especially such a disreputable feminine one as the earth. If so, the sun had better be called upon as an intermediary, to heliograph a social, "Earth, meet Mars." If the language...
About the unsocial planet the star-seekers have formulated many theories. It has red vegetation--perhaps inhabititants believe in painting the planet. It has canals, either as a means of irrigation or of lavation. If for the former purpose, it is to be hoped Mars is not so dry as Kansas. If for the latter, it betokens a higher state of civilization than has been attained in the backwoods of Maine, where the weekly sabbatical bath is still a hallowed and inviolate tradition...