Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pacifist?" John Ramage of the London School of Economics gave his conception of a pacifist as "An inverted militarist, one whose natural pugilistic instincts have somehow turned into fresher channels." Commenting with surprise upon the inconsistency of men who could play football, but were appalied at the thought of war. Ramage compared his opponents to the shades in Homer, who "drank blood, but could not look upon...
...University gave vent to the boast that he would "smite them hip and thigh, and scatter the bones of their arguments to the four winds." The whole contention of the English speakers was that pacifism was a good peace time doctrine, but did not reach the fundamental causes of war...
...University speakers maintained that the uncompromising determination to outlaw war, expressed in an educational program for peace, and effective machinery for international arbitration of disputes, could alone succeed where the appeal to ultimate force has failed...
Taking sharp issue with the belief that war was the worst evil in the world, Haddon asked what would have become of the American contribution to civilization if the fathers of the Revolution had been "lily white pacifists." Even admitting that pacifism was a Christian doctrine, which he vigorously denied. Haddon pointed out that not one-tenth of the world even claimed to be Christian, and that the Mohammedan Koran taught reliance on the "long arm and glittering saber." War is essential to the enforcement of law among nations, just as punishment is needed for civil offences, Haddon maintained...
...Lorenzen '28 denied the English claim that pacifism meant an idle folding of hands. He advocated education for peace as an effective expression of the pacifistic philosophy. Reviewing the tendency to glorify war in the schools. Lorenzen stated that the average student gets the impression that the history of mankind has consisted of glorious wars and a few periods of dull peace. This coloring of history is responsible for the human love of armed conflict, and an uncompromising pacifism must go into the school textbooks and give a true picture of war...