...William James in his pamphlet on "The Moral Equivalent of War" says: "The martial type of character can be bred without war. Strenuous honor and disinterestedness...it imperative if we were conscious of our work as obligatory service to the state. We should be owned as soldiers are by the army, and our pride would...

...against war a means should be established of securing international justice, and if througb^eo' operative action the decrees of justice were enforced, so that...as an obligatory service to the state. We should be oivned, as soldiers are by the army, and our pride would rise accordingly. We could be poor, then,...

...this writing is found in the last sentence of the following paragraph: "The martial type of character can be bred without war. Strenuous honor and disinterestedness...of our work as an obligatory service to the state." After all, it is Service that Mr. James is putting forward as the only antidote to decadence. How can...

...feel some degree of [martial character] imperative if we were conscious of our work as an obligator}' service to the state. We should be owned, as soldiers...by the army, and our pride would rise accordingly." If the inherent top-down purposefulncss characteristic of militan' organizations could be translated...

...way." But he envisioned the possibility of an "equivalent discipline": The martial type of character can be bred without war. Strenuous honor and disinterestedness...men are in a fashion educated to it, and we should feel some degree of it imperative if we were conscious of our work as an obligatory service to the...

...propagandism, and of opinion-making men seizing historic opportunities. The martial type of character can be bred without war. Strenuous honor and disinterestedness...imperative if we were conscious of our work as an 292 obligatory service to the state. We should be owned, as soldiers are by the army, and our pride...