 | William Graham Sumner - Social sciences - 1911 - 420 pages
...national vanity and selfishness when they cross each other's path. yif~you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which...betray him against himself. Civilized men have done then* fiercest fighting for doctrines. The reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher, "the balance of power,"... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Little magazines - 1912 - 756 pages
...vanity and selfishness when they cross each other's path. '"'" If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which...men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines. The reconquest of the Holy Sepulchre,'1 "the balance of power," "no universal dominion," "trade follows... | |
 | 1915 - 494 pages
...dogmatic statement of laws or principles. William G. Sumner says: "If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which...man's own reason and betray him against himself." Consciously and unconsciously, the pragmatic philosophy is succeeding the dogmatic, in science as it... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Fisher - Peace - 1916 - 56 pages
...dogmatic statement of laws or principles. William G. Sumner says: "If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which...man's own reason and betray him against himself." Consciously and unconsciously, the pragmatic philosophy is succeeding the dogmatic, in science as it... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs - Draft - 1917 - 1186 pages
...ceased to apply to existing conditions. William G. Sumner said, "If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject because doctrines get insjde of a man's own reason and betray him against himself." In the address to which reference has... | |
 | Political science - 1917 - 656 pages
...forget that truth which William G. Sumner announced, when he said: "If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject, because doctrines get into a man's own reason and betray him against himself." . So it is with that ancient doctrine that... | |
 | 1918 - 446 pages
...almost every other day: " 'If you want war,' Professor Keller quotes from Sumner, 'nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which...man's own reason, and betray him against himself.'. . . . The reason why German warfare is so strangely ruthless seems to be the same reason why religious... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Social sciences - 1924 - 380 pages
...national vanity and selfishness when they cross each other's path. If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which...men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines. The reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher, "the balance of power," "no universal dominion," "trade follows... | |
 | William Graham Sumner, Albert Galloway Keller, Maurice Rea Davie - Sociology - 1927 - 894 pages
...to changed life-conditions, but we re-interpret it as we go and refuse to admit that it is changed. "Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which...men ever are subject, because doctrines get inside a man's own reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting... | |
 | University of Chicago - 1916 - 288 pages
...dogmatic statement of laws or principles. William G. Sumner says: "If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which...man's own reason and betray him against himself." Consciously and unconsciously, the pragmatic philosophy is succeeding the dogmatic, in science as it... | |
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If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject, because doctrines get inside of a man's own reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.... 
