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" Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would be insipid indeed ; and there is a type of military character which every... "
The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National ... - Page 65
by Sir Norman Angell - 1913 - 371 pages
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McClure's Magazine, Volume 35

1910 - 768 pages
...this feeling goes, no healthy-minded person, it seems to me, can help partaking of it to some degree. Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of...human life without hardihood would be contemptible. Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would be insipid indeed; and there is a type of military...
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International Conciliation, Issues 16-39

1909 - 512 pages
...this feeling goes, no healthy minded person, it seems to me, can help to some degree partaking of it. Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would...
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The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930

Bruce Kuklick - 1979 - 712 pages
...this feeling goes, no healthy minded person, it seems to me, can help to some degree partaking of it. Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would...
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On The Man Question: Gender and Civic Virtue in America

Mark Kann - 2010 - 379 pages
...such as William James could appreciate the functional appeal of military life. "Militarism," he wrote, "is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible." Selfishness was a trap. It failed to bring self-fulfillment...
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William James: His Life and Thought

Gerald Eugene Myers - 2001 - 666 pages
...intelligence of most listeners, and in the forum of practical politics it is a ridiculous gesture. Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would...
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Women and Evil

Nel Noddings - 1991 - 295 pages
...this statement immediately with one that grants the apologists' central point. "Militarism," he says, "is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would...
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The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I

Michael C. Adams - 1990 - 200 pages
...day of my life."" William James recognized that the horrible in war did not turn men away, because "militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible" War's advocates could argue that its '"horrors' are...
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War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age

Daniel Pick - 1996 - 308 pages
...this feeling goes, no healthy minded person, it seems to me, can help to some degree partaking of it. Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible' (p. 8). Accepting that argument, it follows that the...
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Die amerikanische Nietzsche-Rezeption von 1896 bis 1950

Hays Alan Steilberg - 1996 - 464 pages
...martialischen Erzeihung für eine weitere Quelle der höheren Gesinnung. „Militarism", schrieb er, is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would...
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Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the ...

Paul T. McCartney - 2006 - 392 pages
...the feeling goes, no healthy minded person, it seems to me, can help to some degree partaking of it. Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of...human life without hardihood would be contemptible. . . . The duty is incumbent on mankind, of keeping military characteristics in stock ... so that Roosevelt's...
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