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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...every point at which present education touches on the question of international relations there must be change. In the schools the successful soldier must cease to be a synonym for hero. History must be brought so as to show the true relation between military power and individual welfare. Even if his patriotism does not lead a man to devote his entire life to the real defense of his country, even to carrying the campaign of education into the more backward nations, wherever he does come into contact with the problem he must make his contribution along these lines...
...those who have never had the faith to try it; a man who refuses to accept Christianity has done one of three things: he has never faced himself squarely, he has never investigated for himself, or he has never been a man at all. "Unfaith" is too often the synonym of "don't want to" and not "can't." Dr. Grenfell showed how many of the noblest things in life must be taken as such on faith, even those things which seem entirely unreasonable. In this connection he cited numerous examples from his Labrador experiences with fishermen,--rough, brutal...