Preparations for Peace: An Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Ninety-seventh Convocation of the University of Chicago, December 21, 1915, and Before the Industrial Club of Chicago on January 27, 1916U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 39 pages |
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Page 38 - If the peace of Europe can be preserved, and the present crisis safely passed, my own endeavour will be to promote some arrangement to which Germany could be a party, by which she could be assured that no aggressive or hostile policy would be pursued against her or her allies by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately.
Page 5 - When the commander of a besieged place expels the non-combatants, in order to lessen the number of those who consume his stock of provisions, it is lawful, though an extreme measure, to drive them back, so as to hasten on the surrender.
Page 23 - While we speak of the preparation of the nation to make sure of her security and her effective power we must not fall into the patent error of supposing that her real strength comes from armaments and mere safeguards of written law. It comes, of course, from her people, their energy, their success in their undertakings, their free opportunity to use the natural resources of our great home land and of the lands outside our continental borders which look to us for protection, for encouragement, and...
Page 24 - The transportation problem is an exceedingly serious and pressing one in this country. There has from time to time of late been, reason to fear that our railroads would not much longer be able to cope with it successfully, as at present equipped and coordinated. I suggest that it would be wise to provide for a commission of inquiry to ascertain by a thorough canvass of the whole question whether our laws as at present framed and administered are as serviceable as they might be in the solution of...
Page 24 - In the meantime may I make this suggestion? The transportation problem is an exceedingly serious and pressing one in this country. There has from time to time of late been reason to fear that our railroads would not much longer be able to cope with it successfuDy, as at present equipped and co-ordinated.
Page 27 - Rome were mostly built of wood, and the ^Ediles had so far failed to organize efficient measures of prevention, fires were at this time exceedingly frequent. This suggested to him a very ingenious idea. He organized a regular fire brigade from amongst his slaves, and established watch stations in every part of Rome. As soon as a fire broke...
Page 7 - ... that an understanding between Germany and England will become possible It is the ideas and the ideals that must be fundamentally changed: "Instauratio facienda ab imis fundamentis.
Page 36 - But it was always difficult to maintain such a role without offense to the pride of the peoples whose freedom of action we sought to protect, and without provoking serious misconceptions of our motives, and every thoughtful man of affairs must welcome the altered circumstances of the new day in whose light we now stand, when there is no claim of guardianship or thought of wards but, instead, a full and honorable association as of partners between ourselves and our...
Page 8 - A million petty disputes build up the greatest cause of war the world has ever seen. If Germany were extinguished tomorrow, the day after tomorrow there is not an Englishman in the world who would not be the richer.
Page 20 - No; German social and industrial progress is not due to military training, but, as Paul Rohrback says, to German industry, and to the fact that Germany has made more progress toward having her government perform the true functions of government in its internal and peaceful relations to its citizens than has been made by other governments, especially our own. Unless our preparation is not only planned...