 | 1910 - 392 pages
...ruin of a civilization in intellectual respects perhaps the highest the earth has ever seen. Those wars were purely piratical. Pride, gold, women, slaves, excitement, were their only motives. In the Peloponnesian war, for example, the Athenians ask the inhabitants of Melos (the island... | |
 | Norman Angell - 1910 - 464 pages
...of war was just as true of the ventures of the old Vikings, and even later of piracy.' Yet we super' ‘Professor William James says: “Greek history is a panorama of war for war's sake and . . of the utter ruin of a civilizatk*1 The Factor of Physical Force 277 seded the Viking and we... | |
 | Norman Angell - 1910 - 422 pages
...war was just as true of the ventures of the old Vikings, and even later of piracy. x Yet we super1 Professor William James says: "Greek history is a panorama of war for war's sake and . . of the utter ruin of a civilization seded the Viking and we hanged the pirate, though I doubt... | |
 | William James - 1910 - 32 pages
...ruin of a civilization in intellectual respects perhaps the high-est the earth has ever seen. Those wars were purely piratical. Pride, gold, women, slaves, excitement, were their only motives. In the Peloponnesian war, for example, the Athenians ask the inhabitants of Melos (the island... | |
 | William James - 1910 - 32 pages
...ruin of a civilization in intellectual respects perhaps the highest the earth has ever seen. Those wars were purely piratical. Pride, gold, women, slaves, excitement, were their only motives. In the Peloponnesian war, for example, the Athenians ask the inhabitants of Melos (the island... | |
 | Norman Angell - 1911 - 444 pages
...of war was just as true of the ventures of the old Vikings, and even later of piracy.' Yet we super1 Professor William James says: "Greek history is a panorama of war for war's sake and . . of the utter ruin of a civilization seded the Viking and we hanged the pirate, though I doubt... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - 1913 - 556 pages
...ruin of a civilization in intellectual respects perhaps the highest the earth has ever seen. Those wars were purely piratical. Pride, gold, women, slaves, excitement, were their only motives. In the Peloponnesian war,. for example, the Athenians asked the inhabitants of Melos (the... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - 1913 - 556 pages
...ruin of a civilization in intellectual respects perhaps the highest the earth has ever seen. Those wars were purely piratical. Pride, gold, women, slaves, excitement, were their only motives. In the Peloponnesian war, for example, the Athenians asked the inhabitants of Melos (the island... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - 1913 - 558 pages
...ruin of a civilization in intellectual respects perhaps the highest the earth has ever seen. Those wars were purely piratical. Pride, gold, women, slaves, excitement, were their only motives. In the Peloponnesian war, for example, the Athenians asked the inhabitants of Melos (the island... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Willard Higley Durham - 1917 - 386 pages
...ruin of a civilization in intellectual respects perhaps the highest the earth has ever seen. Those wars were purely piratical. Pride, gold, women, slaves, excitement, were their only motives. In the Peloponnesian war, for example, the Athenians ask the inhabitants of Melos (the island... | |
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•Professor William James says: "Greek history is a panorama of war for war's sake ... of the utter ruin of a civilization which in intellectual respects was perhaps the highest the earth has ever seen. The wars were purely piratical. Pride, gold, women,... 
