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Clearly honor for honor's sake must bow to some more infallible test of duty. This test is, I take it, whether one's conduct is pushing forward to the goal which his philosophy accepts. I can see no logical mid-points between private egoism and devotion to the human common-wealth. Suppose the latter is chosen. Then right is action towards this goal. And retaliation is right when and when only it carries man forward. Whenever self-assertion against a molestor only makes matters worse for the community, the injured individual ought to submit and swallow his humiliation cheerfully...
...death-blow to our prosperity and happiness, and another capitulation to this frightful international chaos which pits civilization against civilization in the name of civilization. In other words, our joining the war is one more loss to the cause of peace, one more concession to legalized murder for the sake of an issue which is clear only to the ignorant. War for humanity?--For prestige, perhaps, which will benefit our national self-esteem; or for rights, as a mere matter of form; but never for humanity. WILLIAM B. SOUTHWORTH...
...with foreign powers because she is militarily weak? Foreign diplomats will construe our proposal as follows: "We do not want to fight, and besides, we are weak; let us have perpetual peace." And their construction will be correct, for although Mr. Wilson may desire world peace for its own sake, the American people, if it proposes world peace, will do so for the sake of American safety and American interests. It is not likely that America's proposal will be accepted if she says, in effect: "We propose a world league to enforce peace, every member of which pledges itself...
Harvard s at this moment raising a monument to those of her sons who have fallen in the European war-whether they fell in the German ranks or with the Allies. No distinction is made between those romantic spirits who gave their lives for the world's sake in opposing the Huns, and the German boy who was called to his colors. No distinction is made between the cause of the allies and the cause of Germany. The monument celebrates both causes indifferently. It approves the invasion of Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania by the same...
...goes in search of the strange angle of vision, the unheard-of adjective, the interpretation of sounds in the terms of sight, of color in the terms of feeling and so forth. The author may adorn his poetry with these things, but if he writes his verse for the sake of these things and nothing else, he becomes an aesthetic gymnast, more a psychologist than a poet...