The Reckoning: A Discussion of the Moral Aspects of the Peace Problem, and of Retributive Justice as an Indispensable ElementG. P. Putnam's sons, 1918 - 225 páginas |
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Página xxiii
... suggested as one condition of peace . While much has been said by the statesmen of the Allies as to the dethronement of the Hohenzollern dynasty , yet none has demanded in any formal way that the Prussian Empire , which in 1871 was ...
... suggested as one condition of peace . While much has been said by the statesmen of the Allies as to the dethronement of the Hohenzollern dynasty , yet none has demanded in any formal way that the Prussian Empire , which in 1871 was ...
Página xxiv
... suggested condition of peace , to which little , if any , expression has been given by others whose judgment " in such matters cries in the top of mine . " The author , however , believes so firmly that a durable victory may not be ...
... suggested condition of peace , to which little , if any , expression has been given by others whose judgment " in such matters cries in the top of mine . " The author , however , believes so firmly that a durable victory may not be ...
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... jurists designate as Sittlichkeit and Moralität . I have no disposition to enter into this controversy and to make another fruitless attempt to distinguish between various shades of meaning suggested by the word " law . " The Higher Law 3.
... jurists designate as Sittlichkeit and Moralität . I have no disposition to enter into this controversy and to make another fruitless attempt to distinguish between various shades of meaning suggested by the word " law . " The Higher Law 3.
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... suggested by the word " law . " In this time of " blood and iron , " metaphysical subtleties and verbal hair - splittings seem sadly out of place . The subject is timely only because the main- tenance of such higher law is in the last ...
... suggested by the word " law . " In this time of " blood and iron , " metaphysical subtleties and verbal hair - splittings seem sadly out of place . The subject is timely only because the main- tenance of such higher law is in the last ...
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... suggest that mercy is a matter of grace , but that its mandate is greater than that of a Venetian Doge or the Council of Ten . The usurper has his legal right to the penalty , but the higher law compels him to surrender that right ...
... suggest that mercy is a matter of grace , but that its mandate is greater than that of a Venetian Doge or the Council of Ten . The usurper has his legal right to the penalty , but the higher law compels him to surrender that right ...
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accepted allied nations America analogy army assumed Austria battle Belgium Bismarck brave Britain century CHAPTER character civilization Congress Constitution covenant declaration defeat democratic destroyed diplomatic discussion Doctor Francke economic Emperor England Europe European expression final force fourteen propositions France Frederick the Base freedom French G. P. Putnam's Sons German Empire Germany Germany's greatest Hamlet higher law Hohenzollern dynasty house of Hohenzollern human ideal Imperial Government infinite influence Kaiser king league of nations liberal mankind ment military millions moral Napoleon nature negotiations neutral never noble nobler opinion party peace conference peace table phrase play political potent present President Wilson primal Prince Prussia Prussian Empire question reason reckoning recognized Reichstag representatives Republic retributive justice sacrifice seas Senate Serbia Shakespeare Silesia Socialistic soldiers spirit statesmen struggle suggested supreme terms of peace territory thought throne tion United victory vote wise Wittenberg words world tragedy
Pasajes populares
Página 151 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Página 137 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught : leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
Página 210 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
Página 159 - We go to gain a little patch of ground That hath in it no profit but the name. To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
Página 196 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of International covenants.
Página 201 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Página 1 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 203 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined.
Página 12 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 151 - Examples, gross as earth, exhort me : "Witness, this army of such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit with divine ambition pufTd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, and danger, dare, Even for an egg-shell.