The War and Humanity: A Further Discussion of the Ethics of the World War and the Attitude and Duty of the United StatesG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917 - 360 страница |
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... possible for the author to discuss a completed chapter of its history . Henceforth the ethical problems of the war , so far as they relate to the United States , will concern the manner in which the United States prosecutes the war ...
... possible for the author to discuss a completed chapter of its history . Henceforth the ethical problems of the war , so far as they relate to the United States , will concern the manner in which the United States prosecutes the war ...
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... possible that the fate of the British Empire would have been sealed . Fortu- nately for civilization , Germany committed the stupendous blunder of invading Belgium , and this left to Sir Edward Grey , the unwearying friend of peace , no ...
... possible that the fate of the British Empire would have been sealed . Fortu- nately for civilization , Germany committed the stupendous blunder of invading Belgium , and this left to Sir Edward Grey , the unwearying friend of peace , no ...
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... possible , to combatants only . The sinking of the Lusitania was unthinkable at the beginning of the war . Today , it has become by repetition merely a commonplace of almost idle diplomatic controversy . Even if the code of war had ...
... possible , to combatants only . The sinking of the Lusitania was unthinkable at the beginning of the war . Today , it has become by repetition merely a commonplace of almost idle diplomatic controversy . Even if the code of war had ...
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... possible to the vanquished and should be consistent with the highest interests of civilization , which imperatively require that the spirit of generosity to the vanquished , as individuals , should be observed , lest civilization should ...
... possible to the vanquished and should be consistent with the highest interests of civilization , which imperatively require that the spirit of generosity to the vanquished , as individuals , should be observed , lest civilization should ...
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... possible good . It may do infinite harm . For this reason , any international tribunal , which determines the exceedingly difficult moral question which I am discussing , should control the decision , as such decision would necessarily ...
... possible good . It may do infinite harm . For this reason , any international tribunal , which determines the exceedingly difficult moral question which I am discussing , should control the decision , as such decision would necessarily ...
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Страница 310 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Страница 141 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
Страница xvi - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Страница 262 - ... society; and as no power is left but the military, it is allowed to govern by martial rule until the laws can have their free course. As necessity creates the rule, so it limits its duration ; for, if this government is continued after the courts are reinstated, it is a gross usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war.
Страница 373 - GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making. On the third of February last I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of...
Страница 377 - ... Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Страница 115 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God.
Страница 229 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Страница xxv - And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars, and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth ; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Страница 136 - For my own part, there was not a moment during the revolution, when I would not have given everything I possessed for a restoration to the state of things before the contest began, provided we could have had a sufficient security for its continuance.