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...peace and mind our business only the wanton assault of a wanton nation can ever embroil us. This may happen, it cannot be denied. But it is a dim, remote possibility, while the fruits of militarism are defined and all too certain. We are no more immune from them than are other nations, and the price we may pay will be that which they have paid...
...informed, since 1907. Yet I can not recall that he assailed Heaven with grief and indignation over the violation of Belgium, the sack of Louvain, the desecration of Rheims, the un-warned sinking of un-armed merchant vessels, the murder of Edith Cavel, or any other crime, whether of wanton destruction, raped or massacre, perpetrated by his present proteges. Now, however, he cries out in horror against France...
...then of the utmost concern that university graduates see clearly amid the fog and think straight amidst the babel of confusing voices. It sometimes seems as if no public address could attract attention today unless it constitutes a lurid arraignment of present conditions, or else a wanton attack upon some person or group of individuals. In the field of politics one who declaims of how things should be done and who promises the impossible gains a ready audience, while one who soberly recites a record of actual accomplishment is quickly brushed aside. Many men who pick up their morning papers...
...chanced to be in the riotous vicinity. In thus abandoning themselves to drunken joy have the celebrants been fulfilling a traditional rite? If so, such tradition should be stopped in the name of the law if not of morality. For those future leaders in the republic thus to be wanton law-breakers is bad practice. They have shown that they are able to do it, and are; therefore, as smart as the folks who dispense their home brew. Freshmen have more than done justice to themselves in that respect. But the burning question--the terrible question that confronts the scores...
...authority, to have led Germany into the war. It may at least be urged that it was this attitude of mind which furnished the backing for the attempt to take advantage by war of the situation in Europe, for invading Belgium in violation of the Treaty, and for the wanton destruction of the means of recuperation in France. If it be true that the Great War was a natural result of the principle that there is no moral obligation superior to the national interest, then the blame for the ghastly suffering endured, and for all that has been suffered since...