War, and Other EssaysYale University Press, 1911 - 381 pages |
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... produce discord and weakness . Hence , in the in - group , law ( under the forms of custom and taboo ) and institutions had to take the place of force . Every group was a peace - group inside and the peace was sanctioned by the ghosts ...
... produce discord and weakness . Hence , in the in - group , law ( under the forms of custom and taboo ) and institutions had to take the place of force . Every group was a peace - group inside and the peace was sanctioned by the ghosts ...
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... produces states ; of the North American Indians , those had the intensest feeling of unity who were the most warlike . The Netherlands form a striking example in modern history of the weakness of a state which is internally divided ...
... produces states ; of the North American Indians , those had the intensest feeling of unity who were the most warlike . The Netherlands form a striking example in modern history of the weakness of a state which is internally divided ...
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... produced national sympathy . At the festivals at Upsala peace was enforced for the time and place1 ; dis- putes were settled and fairs held , and there were also feasts and conferences . The Swedes in the thirteenth century formed kin ...
... produced national sympathy . At the festivals at Upsala peace was enforced for the time and place1 ; dis- putes were settled and fairs held , and there were also feasts and conferences . The Swedes in the thirteenth century formed kin ...
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... produce instead of plundering ; it is for this reason that the industrial type of society is the opposite of the militant type . In any state on the continent of Europe to - day these two types of societal organization may be seen ...
... produce instead of plundering ; it is for this reason that the industrial type of society is the opposite of the militant type . In any state on the continent of Europe to - day these two types of societal organization may be seen ...
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... produce combinations which would be destructive in war ; we owe some of our most useful substances to discoveries ... produces political institutions and classes . In the past these insti- tutions and classes have been attended by ...
... produce combinations which would be destructive in war ; we owe some of our most useful substances to discoveries ... produces political institutions and classes . In the past these insti- tutions and classes have been attended by ...
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Page 247 - THE type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this : A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D.
Page 36 - If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject, because doctrines get inside of a man's own reason and betray him against himself.
Page 44 - were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country, without their assistance.
Page 210 - These causes will make of it just what, in fidelity to them, it ought to be. The men will be carried along with it and be made by it. The utmost they can do by their clever-ness will be to note and record their course as they are carried along, which is what we do now, and is that which leads us to the vain fancy that we can make or guide the movement. That is why it is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable, to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
Page 197 - Nine-tenths of the socialistic and semi-socialistic, and sentimental or ethical, suggestions by which we are overwhelmed come from failure to understand the phenomena of the indus-trial organization and its expansion. It controls us all because we are all in it. It creates the conditions of our existence, sets the limits of our social activity, regu-lates the bonds of our social relations, determines our conceptions of good and evil, suggests our life-philosophy, molds our inherited political institutions,...
Page 248 - ... ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They are always under the dominion of the superstition of government, and, forgetting that a government produces nothing at all, they leave out of sight the first fact to be remembered in all social discussion — that the State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.
Page 324 - It is militarism which is eating up all the products of science and art, defeating the energy of the population and wasting its savings. It is militarism which forbids the people to give their attention to the problems of their own welfare and to give their strength to the education and comfort of their children.
Page 257 - There can be no rights against nature, except to get out of her whatever we can, which is only the fact of the struggle for existence stated over again. The common assertion is that the rights are good against society; that is, that society is bound to obtain and secure them for the persons interested. Society, however, is only the persons interested plus some other persons; and as the persons interested have by the hypothesis failed to win the rights, we come to this, that natural rights are the...
Page 252 - A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set up on him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
Page 369 - They are the greatest barrier to new ideas and the chief bulwark of modern obscurantism. The new sciences have produced in their votaries an unquenchable thirst and affection for what is true in fact, word, character, and motive. They have taught us to appreciate and weigh evidence and to deal honestly with it.