Word: tribal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Does not this heroic age in which we live arouse some fire from an uninspired generation? Homer, as the legend goes, wrote the two great epics about the little feuds of a handful of half-barbaric and rather unhygienic Hellene chieftains. Their war was no more than a tribal war, yet the world for three thousand years has spoken, when it would speak of grand things, of Ilium...
...Germany, where the control of the state is more strict, such objectors might be put in pauper institutions. In the Cannibal Islands, where (they say) the control of the state is less strict, objectors to war might be forced to the alternative of entering either the army or the tribal soup kettle. As it happens, we live in the United States, where men must work to live, but are spared the burden of fighting to live...
Colby then told of his expedition to Mt. Kenia in search of elephants. He described the customs and characteristics of the Mweru, Masai, Kikuyu, and other tribes through which he traveled. On several occasions, too, he was obliged to settle tribal dissensions among his own train...