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... preparation for war and the means of conducting war which must ultimately eat up human freedom and all human effort , and , as the phrase goes , destroy civilization . We shall find as we proceed that these simple oppositions do not by ...
... preparation for war and the means of conducting war which must ultimately eat up human freedom and all human effort , and , as the phrase goes , destroy civilization . We shall find as we proceed that these simple oppositions do not by ...
Page 11
... should be equally ready . Tens of thousands of men , most of them eco- nomically very valuable , will have to keep watch day and night , prepared at any moment to flash into warfare THE IDEA OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS 11.
... should be equally ready . Tens of thousands of men , most of them eco- nomically very valuable , will have to keep watch day and night , prepared at any moment to flash into warfare THE IDEA OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS 11.
Page 12
... prepared at any moment to flash into warfare again . The same story of a tremendous permanent expansion of war ... preparation for it , involves distresses , strains , and a continuity of base and narrow purpose , quite beyond the ...
... prepared at any moment to flash into warfare again . The same story of a tremendous permanent expansion of war ... preparation for it , involves distresses , strains , and a continuity of base and narrow purpose , quite beyond the ...
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... preparing schemes for a League of Nations the onus of provid- ing for progress , competition , and liberty under the restraints of such a scheme . It may be worth while to take up and consider here a group of facts that are sometimes ...
... preparing schemes for a League of Nations the onus of provid- ing for progress , competition , and liberty under the restraints of such a scheme . It may be worth while to take up and consider here a group of facts that are sometimes ...
Page 32
... preparation is to continue , of any possibility of an adequate fresh sowing of further achieve- ments . The root from which all the shining triumphs of technical and social science spring , we must remember , is the quiet and steadfast ...
... preparation is to continue , of any possibility of an adequate fresh sowing of further achieve- ments . The root from which all the shining triumphs of technical and social science spring , we must remember , is the quiet and steadfast ...
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accept aeroplane Argives armament armies battle belligerent biological Bolshevik cavalry Christendom civilization Clausewitz combatant competition conceivable conception conflict coöperation council criticism defeat dream Europe European example fact fight force Foreign Office frontier German Empire Germany greater hitherto hostility human affairs human nature impossible inclosures individual inevitable instances intense invention ization King of France Lacedæmonians League of Nations league-of-nations project limitation lives logical loyalty Machiavelli mankind ment mental mercenaries military millions mind modern war-process Modern warfare moral munitions mutual nation in arms never objection organized world-peace overgrowth Pathan peace phase political possible power idea preparation prepossession probability realize reason release rentier Roman Empire rules Russia scale scientific social sort Spartan species story substantial truth suffering survive tank theory thing thought thousand three hundred Thyrea tions tribes unification vast vendetta victory village marksmen wars whole word World-League of Nations