Germany Vs. Civilization: Notes on the Atrocious WarHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 238 páginas |
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... research . While the Germans discovered few first prin- ciples , they were most nimble in seizing foreign discoveries and in elaborating these through every variation . They organized , if they did not REALITY OR MIRAGE ? 13.
... research . While the Germans discovered few first prin- ciples , they were most nimble in seizing foreign discoveries and in elaborating these through every variation . They organized , if they did not REALITY OR MIRAGE ? 13.
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Notes on the Atrocious War William Roscoe Thayer. every variation . They organized , if they did not invent , a method of education , using that word in its broadest sense , by which they re- duced learning to a system as admirably ...
Notes on the Atrocious War William Roscoe Thayer. every variation . They organized , if they did not invent , a method of education , using that word in its broadest sense , by which they re- duced learning to a system as admirably ...
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... organized to serve the will of the Army , and that the Army must be called in to settle every international dispute . Bismarck knew that in his hands Diplomacy , without shedding a drop of blood , had won campaigns hardly less important ...
... organized to serve the will of the Army , and that the Army must be called in to settle every international dispute . Bismarck knew that in his hands Diplomacy , without shedding a drop of blood , had won campaigns hardly less important ...
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... the Chinese rather than any European race , were slowly organized into a machine as vast as Germany itself . In industry , agriculture , and commerce dis- cipline similar to that in the Army was estab- lished MANIPULATING TEUTONIC TRAITS.
... the Chinese rather than any European race , were slowly organized into a machine as vast as Germany itself . In industry , agriculture , and commerce dis- cipline similar to that in the Army was estab- lished MANIPULATING TEUTONIC TRAITS.
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... organized to arouse the enthusi- asm of the Empire ; the glory of embarking on vast colonial enterprises was preached ; and the ulterior purpose which a mighty Navy 1 might serve began to be whispered . By the WILLIAM THE PEACEMAKER 69.
... organized to arouse the enthusi- asm of the Empire ; the glory of embarking on vast colonial enterprises was preached ; and the ulterior purpose which a mighty Navy 1 might serve began to be whispered . By the WILLIAM THE PEACEMAKER 69.
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Página 110 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 222 - What are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of kingcraft were of this class ; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden.
Página 136 - Government was terrible to a degree ; just for a word — " neutrality," a word which in war time had so often been disregarded — just for a scrap of paper, Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.
Página 9 - And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not : Am I my brother's keeper?
Página 26 - ... of the chief. And it is an infamy and a reproach for life to have survived the chief, and returned from the field. To defend, to protect him, to ascribe one's own brave deeds to his renown, is the height of loyalty. The chief fights for victory; his vassals fight for their chief. If their native state sinks into the sloth of prolonged peace and repose, many of its noble youths voluntarily seek those tribes which are waging some war, both because inaction is odious to their race, and because they...
Página 134 - And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry ' Havoc ! ' and let slip the dogs of war ; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Página 137 - So we were compelled to override the just protest of the Luxemburg and Belgian Governments. The wrong — I speak openly — that we are committing we will endeavor to make good as soon as our military goal has been reached.
Página 238 - A ferry of the free. And henceforth there shall be no chain, Save underneath the sea The wires shall murmur through the main Sweet songs of liberty. The conscious stars accord above, The waters wild below, And under, through the cable wove, Her fiery errands go. For He that worketh high and wise, Nor pauses in his plan, Will take the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man.
Página 1 - O well for him whose will is strong! He suffers, but he will not suffer long; He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong: For him nor moves the loud world's random mock, Nor all Calamity's hugest waves confound, Who seems a promontory of rock, That, compass'd round with turbulent sound, In middle ocean meets the surging shock, Tempest-buffeted, citadel-crown'd.
Página 99 - Strong, healthy, and flourishing nations increase in numbers. From a given moment they require a continual expansion of their frontiers, they require new territory for the accommodation of their surplus population. Since almost every part of the globe is inhabited, new territory must, as a rule, be obtained at the cost of its possessors — that is to say, by conquest, which thus becomes a law of necessity.