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Page xxi
... feeling and concentrated effort as were required to keep it at bay . For whatever the precise incidents of the eleventh hour ; whatever the shares which history will assign to the various governments , this much is certain : that for ...
... feeling and concentrated effort as were required to keep it at bay . For whatever the precise incidents of the eleventh hour ; whatever the shares which history will assign to the various governments , this much is certain : that for ...
Page xxii
... feelings . Everybody agreed in the abstract that war was the common enemy of all mankind ; but it needed a concrete ... feeling certain that it was not of their willing , they inevitably lay hold of the belief that the other party must ...
... feelings . Everybody agreed in the abstract that war was the common enemy of all mankind ; but it needed a concrete ... feeling certain that it was not of their willing , they inevitably lay hold of the belief that the other party must ...
Page xxiii
... feeling being in us , being the dominant part of us , cannot . To the modern conscience in time of peace , war is a monstrosity complicated by an absurdity ; hence no one can believe himself to have had a hand in bringing it about ...
... feeling being in us , being the dominant part of us , cannot . To the modern conscience in time of peace , war is a monstrosity complicated by an absurdity ; hence no one can believe himself to have had a hand in bringing it about ...
Page xxv
... feelings possess a logic of their own , separate from , often opposed to , the logic of fact and reason , but far more cogent . Now among the unexpressed , irresistible formulæ of that logic of the feelings is that of judging of an ...
... feelings possess a logic of their own , separate from , often opposed to , the logic of fact and reason , but far more cogent . Now among the unexpressed , irresistible formulæ of that logic of the feelings is that of judging of an ...
Page xxvii
... feelings less avowable but quite as natural : the hankering after imitating others , but also after being imitated , and having one's own decisions justified by one's neighbours ; the horror as of the void , of feeling isolated , out in ...
... feelings less avowable but quite as natural : the hankering after imitating others , but also after being imitated , and having one's own decisions justified by one's neighbours ; the horror as of the void , of feeling isolated , out in ...
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