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... power at present incalculable , ow- ing to vast strides in the printing of pictures , and to the cinema- tograph , the gramophone , and similar means of intense world- wide information and suggestion . II While all these things , on the ...
... power at present incalculable , ow- ing to vast strides in the printing of pictures , and to the cinema- tograph , the gramophone , and similar means of intense world- wide information and suggestion . II While all these things , on the ...
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... idea of a world - hegemony for Germany , or for any other single power , as a fantastic vanity . We have to consider , however , the much greater probability of a group of the more powerful states , including perhaps a chas- tened ...
... idea of a world - hegemony for Germany , or for any other single power , as a fantastic vanity . We have to consider , however , the much greater probability of a group of the more powerful states , including perhaps a chas- tened ...
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... powers and resources of the great European peoples . If it be asked why this logical evolution of the idea of war has taken so many centuries to work itself out , the main reason among many others- may be stated in two words : munitions ...
... powers and resources of the great European peoples . If it be asked why this logical evolution of the idea of war has taken so many centuries to work itself out , the main reason among many others- may be stated in two words : munitions ...
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... power over matter before it can wisely select the ends to which it will apply that power . The idea of war had to work it- self out to the full and demonstrate its own impossibility , before man could find the insight and the energy to ...
... power over matter before it can wisely select the ends to which it will apply that power . The idea of war had to work it- self out to the full and demonstrate its own impossibility , before man could find the insight and the energy to ...
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... power , and there was still a fair chance of survival , and a certain presumption that the better or more skillful man would escape . But before the end of the nineteenth century the village marksmen had possessed themselves of the ...
... power , and there was still a fair chance of survival , and a certain presumption that the better or more skillful man would escape . But before the end of the nineteenth century the village marksmen had possessed themselves of the ...
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