Selected Articles on World Peace Including International Arbitration and DisarmamentH.W. Wilson Company, 1916 - 256 pages |
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... true that warlike traditions are most persistent with nations most frequently engaged in war . But the traditions of war and the physical strength to gain victories are very different things . Other things being equal , the nation which ...
... true that warlike traditions are most persistent with nations most frequently engaged in war . But the traditions of war and the physical strength to gain victories are very different things . Other things being equal , the nation which ...
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... true , and most of them looked out on life with " frank blue Briton eyes . " This too we may admit , that war is not the only destruc- tive agency in modern society , and that in the struggle for existence the England of to - day has ...
... true , and most of them looked out on life with " frank blue Briton eyes . " This too we may admit , that war is not the only destruc- tive agency in modern society , and that in the struggle for existence the England of to - day has ...
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... true , arises the final and bitter truth : " Wars are not paid for in war time . The bill comes later ! " Advocate of Peace . 71 : 161-6 . July , 1909 . Prince of Peace . Charles R. Brown . And what is it all for ? I know the scareheads ...
... true , arises the final and bitter truth : " Wars are not paid for in war time . The bill comes later ! " Advocate of Peace . 71 : 161-6 . July , 1909 . Prince of Peace . Charles R. Brown . And what is it all for ? I know the scareheads ...
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... true estimate of American human nature in this year of grace and of the measure of civilization which the world has actually achieved , the Ameri- can Senate would find no difficulty in believing with President Taft that treaties with ...
... true estimate of American human nature in this year of grace and of the measure of civilization which the world has actually achieved , the Ameri- can Senate would find no difficulty in believing with President Taft that treaties with ...
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... upon the problem of war is this , that people are learning to think in economic terms . Frederick the Great used to say that an army , like a snake , moves upon its stomach . ' Tis true , likewise , of WORLD PEACE 23.
... upon the problem of war is this , that people are learning to think in economic terms . Frederick the Great used to say that an army , like a snake , moves upon its stomach . ' Tis true , likewise , of WORLD PEACE 23.
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Page 217 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences, we give and take, we remit some rights that we may enjoy others, and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Page 20 - If now we can negotiate and put through a positive agreement with some great nation to abide the adjudication of an international arbitral court in every issue which cannot be settled by negotiation, no matter what it involves, whether honor, territory, or money...
Page 20 - But, granted sincerity of purpose, the great powers of the world should find no insurmountable difficulty in reaching an agreement which would put an end to the present costly and growing extravagance of expenditure on naval armaments.
Page 133 - Caesarian type of which history shows so many examples, and which is all that General Lea seems able to imagine. But there is no reason to think that women can no longer be the mothers of Napoleonic or Alexandrian characters; and if these come in Japan and find their opportunity, just such surprises as "The Valor of Ignorance " paints may lurk in ambush for us.
Page 106 - The naval force to be maintained upon the American lakes by His Majesty and the Government of the United States shall henceforth be confined to the following vessels on each side, that is — On Lake Ontario, to one vessel not exceeding one hundred tons burden, and armed with one eighteen pound cannon. On the Upper Lakes, to two vessels not exceeding like burden each, and armed with like force.
Page 131 - The weakness of so much merely negative criticism is evident — pacificism makes no converts from the military party. The military party denies neither the bestiality nor the horror, nor the expense ; it only says that these things tell but half the story. It only says that war is worth them ; that, taking human nature as a whole, its wars are its best protection against its weaker and more cowardly self, and that mankind cannot afford to adopt a peace-economy.
Page 9 - What won the battles on the Yalu, in Korea or Manchuria," says the Japanese writer, Nitobe, "was the ghosts of our fathers guiding our hands and beating in our hearts.
Page 1 - If the existence of war always implies injustice, in one at least of the parties concerned, it is also the fruitful parent of crimes. It reverses, with respect to its objects, all the rules of morality. It is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue, It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are incorporated.
Page 133 - ... game in which the first moves were her wars with China and Russia and her treaty with England, and of which the final objective is the capture of the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, and the whole of our Coast west of the Sierra Passes. This will give Japan what her ineluctable vocation as a state...
Page 67 - In the latter part of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century...