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Page xi
... Self - Sacrifice and Waste . One knew such subjects were there ; one knew there was a question called War ; but covered it all over with other thoughts , more agreeable to one's private contemplation and fitter for exhibition to one's ...
... Self - Sacrifice and Waste . One knew such subjects were there ; one knew there was a question called War ; but covered it all over with other thoughts , more agreeable to one's private contemplation and fitter for exhibition to one's ...
Page xxii
... sacrifice to the individuals composing those nations , hence nothing which ... self - defence , they unlearn whatever slight habit they may have had of ... sacrifice everything in supreme self - defence . Add to this psychological ...
... sacrifice to the individuals composing those nations , hence nothing which ... self - defence , they unlearn whatever slight habit they may have had of ... sacrifice everything in supreme self - defence . Add to this psychological ...
Page xxiii
... self - defence ; felt to be an unwilling sacrifice of civilized man's supreme repugnances , which they add on to the atrocious account of those who seem to force them to it . Thus , war being in the eyes of all the belligerents alike ...
... self - defence ; felt to be an unwilling sacrifice of civilized man's supreme repugnances , which they add on to the atrocious account of those who seem to force them to it . Thus , war being in the eyes of all the belligerents alike ...
Page xxv
... self- sacrifice of others by the least suggestion of its being misplaced . There is , more potent still , that strange human instinct of meeting any inexorable demand for sacrifice - sacrifice of self , of beloved ones , sacrifice no ...
... self- sacrifice of others by the least suggestion of its being misplaced . There is , more potent still , that strange human instinct of meeting any inexorable demand for sacrifice - sacrifice of self , of beloved ones , sacrifice no ...
Page xxxii
... self - respect- ing man or woman can openly refuse to bring a sacrifice for the common good , or will deliberately hold aloof from a good cause ? Now when the community exacts a sacrifice it is always for the common good ; nor has any ...
... self - respect- ing man or woman can openly refuse to bring a sacrifice for the common good , or will deliberately hold aloof from a good cause ? Now when the community exacts a sacrifice it is always for the common good ; nor has any ...
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