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Page 27
... conflict and is begotten of conflict . All the good quali- ties of life are the result of the tragic necessities of survival . Life , stripped down to its fundamental fact , is the vehement urgency of individuals or groups of ...
... conflict and is begotten of conflict . All the good quali- ties of life are the result of the tragic necessities of survival . Life , stripped down to its fundamental fact , is the vehement urgency of individuals or groups of ...
Page 31
... Conflict , ' we reply , without traversing his premises , that war , having ceased to be conflict in any discriminating sense , has become indiscrim- inate catastrophe , and that the selective processes which enlarge and enrich life can ...
... Conflict , ' we reply , without traversing his premises , that war , having ceased to be conflict in any discriminating sense , has become indiscrim- inate catastrophe , and that the selective processes which enlarge and enrich life can ...
Page 36
... conflict . A ' power ' to them means the sort of thing which was brought to perfection in Europe in the eighteenth century , in the courts of Versailles , Potsdam , St. Petersburg , and St. James's , and it means nothing else in the ...
... conflict . A ' power ' to them means the sort of thing which was brought to perfection in Europe in the eighteenth century , in the courts of Versailles , Potsdam , St. Petersburg , and St. James's , and it means nothing else in the ...
Page 38
... conflict - either cannot imagine , or pretends an entire inability to imagine , that a power can be restrained from the most complete preparations for war under the very nose of a world council . Even if revolution followed defeat , and ...
... conflict - either cannot imagine , or pretends an entire inability to imagine , that a power can be restrained from the most complete preparations for war under the very nose of a world council . Even if revolution followed defeat , and ...
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... conflict of powers involves , not merely the abandonment of ideas essentially militarist , but also the abandonment of the idea of the world as a conflict of economic systems . As we penetrate these common prepossessions of an age which ...
... conflict of powers involves , not merely the abandonment of ideas essentially militarist , but also the abandonment of the idea of the world as a conflict of economic systems . As we penetrate these common prepossessions of an age which ...
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