...without ideals the essence of which is that they never can be achieved ? I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Most men who know battle know the cynic force with which the thoughts of common-sense will assail...

...namely, "that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." Like all gallant gentlemen soldiers, young Holmes had while fighting, and now has, sincere respect...

...to throw away his life in obedience to plainly accepted duty in a cause which he little understands, a plan of campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." It is because we find his faith true and adorable that we praise the soldier, that he has been...

...without ideals the essence of which is that they never can be achieved ? I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Most men who know battle know the cynic force with which the thoughts of common-sense will assail...

...it by heart. It is the answer to my question. What he said was this : "I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. For high and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which our...

...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, In a plan of can-.palgn of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use". In view...

...graduating class of Harvard University, Holmes spoke of "The Soldier's Faith": I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. Reprinted in The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes, ed. Max Lerner (Boston: Little, Brown, 1943),...

...is that the faith is true and adorable which leads 80 a soldier to throw away his life in obediance to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.8 By the 1890s, Holmes could wrench the battlefield from the social and historical context of the...

...reading has taught him that he must have seen." Like the camera which ex* "I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in...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...

...universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, and that no man who lives in the same world with most...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...