...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...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...

...doubt, and 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...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...

...faith. ON THE SOLDIER'S FAITH Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who served in the Civil War, claimed that "the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."2* Such extreme abnegation of conscience is both immoral and, as will be pointed out below, illegal....

...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,...

...substituted the heroic ideal he was later to advocate in one of his most famous observations: "that the faith is true and adorable, which leads a soldier...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."11 Applied to civil life, this heroism suggests the determination of a patrician to stick to his...

...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,...

...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...

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

...exist they justify the 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...

...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...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...