Word: instinctiveness
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...entered Camp Upton. Their physique after a few months' training, as revealed in the parade in this city, was astounding. So it was in every camp; for after all, despite all belief to the contrary, the American nation was and is one of the least athletic in practice and instinct of any in the world. THE EVENING POST...
...have become security holders, many little realizing the significance of their changing attitude. They have become Liberty Bond holders, buyers of Thrift Stamps. Many have not known, do not yet know that that which they do for their country in its crucial hour is certain to create a new instinct that of a fixed habit of saving and sound investment...
...theory carries out. The men or women with a few dollars in Liberty Bonds or Thrift Stamps will add to those dollars. They will regret when an unnecessary dollar must be drawn from their incomes or their bank deposits. With thousands the thrift instinct has been aroused for the first time: More years of war or sudden peace will not affect the personal equation in the preachment of frugality. At first it will be only gradually realized, the evolution of type being brought about, but nevertheless surely the foundation has been laid for a greater and saner, a better...
...prevent it. Does Mr. Lazarus think this can be done by recognizing and encouraging in our system of education "a frank striving for money?" I do not. Does Mr. Lazarus think that military and economic warfare can be averted in the future by the development of the instinct of self-assertion and self-advancement in the individual or in the group? I do not. It is not gushy sentimentalism or flat self-abnegation that I advocate; backsliding of the individual or unwarranted self-humiliation have no part in my theme. What I should like to see in our schools...
...side is going to win which has the greatest unity of purpose. But in order to realize the necessary unity of spirit in the war we have got to get rid of some of the obstacles which hinder the full apportionment of our common fighting strength and herd instinct. These obstacles are essentially three...