 I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is, that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands,...  The Harvard Graduates' Magazine - Página 181editado por - 1896Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Lee Clark Mitchell - 1986 - 170 páginas
...political or moral end. In the same year as the publication of The Red Badge of Courage, he stated: I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing that I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads 80 a soldier... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1946 - 550 páginas
...that of any man who was called upon in the 188o's to make commemorative speeches on the Civil War. the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt,...collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life... | |
 | Robert Watson Gordon - 1992 - 342 páginas
...Speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Boston, 1918), 56, 59. Talking about his war experience, he said: "I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe." Yet he immediately continued: "But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creed, there is one thing... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - 1965 - 300 páginas
...validity of the claim made by one side or the other. "I do not know what is true," Holmes confessed, "I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life... | |
 | T. J. Jackson Lears - 1994 - 397 páginas
...as a substitute for religious faith. "I do not know the meaning of the universe," he said in 1 895. "But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life... | |
 | Jeff Land - 1999 - 210 páginas
...popular entertainment. 2. LEW HILL'S PASSION AND THE ORIGINS OF PACIFIC A I do not know what is true — But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, . . . that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to... | |
 | Nancy Niblack Baxter - 1980 - 258 páginas
...they were, Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Massachusetts volunteers was only partly right when he wrote: In the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, and that is that faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience... | |
 | Jonathan M. Hansen - 2010 - 278 páginas
...imperative like a lifeline. "I do not know what is true," Holmes confessed, disguising his idealism; "I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is [that] the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life... | |
 | John Pettegrew - 2007 - 434 páginas
...relativistic ethos, one that had the individual soldier offer himself up to the carnage of battle: I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning...collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience... | |
 | Jeffrey Rosen - 2007 - 288 páginas
...Soldier's Faith," delivered at Harvard on Memorial Day, 1895: "I do not know what is true," he declared. "I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life... | |
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