Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purposes of offence. (1) Prevention of European interference with the Western Hemisphere. (2) Necessary in case of war...
...would it be possible for them to have any poetry? In order to have that, we must allow time for the invention of music, then for the application of its laws to language, and, that done, of what subjects would the poets avail themselves? There would be love and war, or, if no deeds worth celebrating offered themselves (unhappily Horace's saying is sometimes reversed, and heroic men as often fail to the bard as the bard to them), there would only be love. I merely put the case as a comment on the assertion we sometimes hear that...
...forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." This speech, he said, is a declaration of patriotism. Patriotism is well defined as the sacrifice of self for the good of the country. The most remarkable acts of patriotism come then naturally in the time of war which is of its very nature a time of sacrifice. But there is plenty of room for the spirit of patriotism in peace. If a man is willing to sacrifice himself for his country he can always do something for it. The great danger of our country is now the lack...
...issue of the legal tender notes during the civil war justified...
Rationalism is that school of philosophy that will accept as true only what may be proved to the reason by means of evidence given by the senses. It is then always at war with religion. It professes to be a strong and manly doctrine, while the rationalists sniff at religious faith as something that can be accepted only by women and children. But they do not look deep enough. Is not the evidence which they do accept as satisfactory really based on faith? They accept the evidences of their senses, the dictates of their reason, but they do not know...