...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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use" (Speeches of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [Boston, 1934], 59). posed the romantic distortions of generations...

...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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."18 From the turn of the century onward, the passion for self-surrender grows with the general...

...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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.43 This soldierly blindness involves an agnostic's abdication before a Final Judgment — the "supposed...

...words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior, himself a soldier and a very distinguished lawyer, "which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."2 It is the state of mind of the Ming censor Zuo Guangdou who, unable to prevail upon his emperor,...

...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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."9 For Holmes, strenuousness and courage were not means to an end, but ends in themselves; personal...

...carelessness for life," a "senseless passion," a "faith . . . which leads a soldier to throw his life away in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." The references to campaigns and tactics reminded Holmes of his own anarchic wartime meanderings, and...

...well-known articulation of the new patriotic ideology. "The faith is true and adorable," Holmes explained, "which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands." Despite the apparent emptiness of such patriotic rhetoric, many were drawn to this Holmesian discourse...

...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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." 64 Holmes's persistent popularity among "realists" and "pragmatists" in the twentieth century is a...

...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...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."64 Holmes's persistent popularity among "realists" and "pragmatists" in the twentieth century...

...result" The thricewounded veteran of the Civil War—who once said that "the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty"—then enunciated gruffly what he saw to be the fundamental principle in the case: We have seen...