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Page xviii
... less acute than the personal , kind , it has to be remem- bered that there are emotional compensations in militant hope , in effort enthusiastically put out for victory , especially in faith in the perfect righteousness of one's own ...
... less acute than the personal , kind , it has to be remem- bered that there are emotional compensations in militant hope , in effort enthusiastically put out for victory , especially in faith in the perfect righteousness of one's own ...
Page xx
... less from its hitherto undreamed of military machinery , less from the even more unprece- dented wholesale fabrication of public opinion , than from the spiritual mechanism of errors and myths which the vastness , XX SATAN THE WASTER.
... less from its hitherto undreamed of military machinery , less from the even more unprece- dented wholesale fabrication of public opinion , than from the spiritual mechanism of errors and myths which the vastness , XX SATAN THE WASTER.
Page xxiii
... less . Even the Italians persuaded themselves , during their months of neutrality , that unless they joined with one or other of the belligerent groups , they also would be attacked , or at all events starved by blockade ; indeed , the ...
... less . Even the Italians persuaded themselves , during their months of neutrality , that unless they joined with one or other of the belligerent groups , they also would be attacked , or at all events starved by blockade ; indeed , the ...
Page xxiv
... less inevitable psychological results . The need for the greatest possible output of defensive effort brings the need for the most complete national unanimity . You cannot get people to fight merely to extricate themselves out of a ...
... less inevitable psychological results . The need for the greatest possible output of defensive effort brings the need for the most complete national unanimity . You cannot get people to fight merely to extricate themselves out of a ...
Page xxv
... less of all civilized man's repugnances - with a conviction of that sacrifice being not . necessary only , but meritorious ; not merely legitimate , but holy ; loss , sorrow , and self - defilement being compensated by religious ...
... less of all civilized man's repugnances - with a conviction of that sacrifice being not . necessary only , but meritorious ; not merely legitimate , but holy ; loss , sorrow , and self - defilement being compensated by religious ...
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