War, and Other EssaysYale University Press, 1911 - 381 pages |
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... relations he was unassuming , helpful , excessively grateful for small services rendered , but beset by the fear that he would cause anybody else some trouble . In many respects his character was strangely like that of Charles Darwin ...
... relations he was unassuming , helpful , excessively grateful for small services rendered , but beset by the fear that he would cause anybody else some trouble . In many respects his character was strangely like that of Charles Darwin ...
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... relations of interest between the groups . These we call peace - pacts , and it is evident that they consist in conven- tional agreements creating some combination between the groups which are parties to the agreement . Each group must ...
... relations of interest between the groups . These we call peace - pacts , and it is evident that they consist in conven- tional agreements creating some combination between the groups which are parties to the agreement . Each group must ...
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... relations . It is no paradox at all to say that peace makes war and that war makes peace . There are two codes of morals and two sets of mores , one for comrades inside and the other for strangers outside , and they arise from the same ...
... relations . It is no paradox at all to say that peace makes war and that war makes peace . There are two codes of morals and two sets of mores , one for comrades inside and the other for strangers outside , and they arise from the same ...
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... relations of marriage or trade with any other people ; they think themselves superior . The Mohaves are wild and barbarous and the Seri are on a lower grade of civilization than any other tribe in America . Therefore , we see that ...
... relations of marriage or trade with any other people ; they think themselves superior . The Mohaves are wild and barbarous and the Seri are on a lower grade of civilization than any other tribe in America . Therefore , we see that ...
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... difference be- tween the relations of members of the in - group with each other , and of the groups with each other , still exists . 1 Pickering , W. A .: Pioneering in Formosa , 136 . If now we turn back to the question with which WAR 13.
... difference be- tween the relations of members of the in - group with each other , and of the groups with each other , still exists . 1 Pickering , W. A .: Pioneering in Formosa , 136 . If now we turn back to the question with which WAR 13.
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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.