Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...demand the right of way on all canals and railroads for the transportation not only of civilian supplies but of war supplies amounts to a denial of Dutch neutrality. Control of transit is a vital function of every nation. To submit to foreign dictation is to abandon sovereignty. Moreover, the obligation of neutrality demands that Holland refuse any step which will be of direct gain to the enemy in its prosecution of the war. This side of the affair is clear, the laws of nationality and neutrality make the acceptance of the proposal impossible...
...hundred varying interests and cares, peaceful and contented in its material prosperity, and complacent in its traditions of democracy and the freedom of men, a sort of Babylonian boarding house of enlightened beings, living in a happiness which was sooner or later bound to meet the rocks of the vital problems of the world's life. All that is changed today. The growing convictions of the early years of the war have burst forth into actual participation. Where once the germs of indifference flourished, the seeds of sincerity and solidarity of purpose have now been planted. In the first days...
Mine were quite well-intentioned motives in perpetrating this airy and cloud-like "pedagogical debate." It seemed to me that there was more than one defect worthy of attention in our system of education; it seemed to me that collegiate opinion on matters of vital importance had for too long a time been moribund; it seemed to me that it was the duty of those who remained at home to exert themselves in their feeble or feeble-minded way in an effort to solve one of the many problems that will confront them after the war; but in all this...
...should obtain a larger percentage of its funds from taxes than from bonds," is of especial interest at the present time. It is essentially a Liberty Loan question and with the new April drive to sell bonds coming next month, it is a subject which is of vital importance...
There are two vital objections to the relentless application of the principle of nationalism in Europe. The first is that the intermingling of peoples in southern and eastern Europe is such as to preclude any division into national communities. The second is that these local states once established will not be governed by their peaceful and illiterate peasantry, but by scheming leaders and princes who are more likely to plunge Europe again into war than to keep it at peace. The interspersion of the racial elements in Russia, Austria and the Balkans makes their separation impossible. Bulgars and Serbs, Magyars...