Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 94Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1917 - American literature |
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... reason and divine command , the moral solidarity of all who accepted the formulas of faith , and the effective organization of peace as a condition of human happiness — seemed to have suffered a fatal catastrophe . In place of the Pax ...
... reason and divine command , the moral solidarity of all who accepted the formulas of faith , and the effective organization of peace as a condition of human happiness — seemed to have suffered a fatal catastrophe . In place of the Pax ...
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... reason , or religion . With such a conception of the nature of the state , the whole system of inter- national relations was necessarily based upon military force . Until Grotius ap- pealed to the ethical motive , and the treaties of ...
... reason , or religion . With such a conception of the nature of the state , the whole system of inter- national relations was necessarily based upon military force . Until Grotius ap- pealed to the ethical motive , and the treaties of ...
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... reason it considered sufficient , or for no reason at all , thus seemed to be written into the public law of Europe . That was the unhallowed in- heritance which modern democracies have received from absolutism . Being entitled to all ...
... reason it considered sufficient , or for no reason at all , thus seemed to be written into the public law of Europe . That was the unhallowed in- heritance which modern democracies have received from absolutism . Being entitled to all ...
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... reason is not diffi- cult to discern . The greater the state , the greater its ambitions . It is easily within the grasp of five or six great powers to secure the permanent peace of the world , and , far more important than that , to se ...
... reason is not diffi- cult to discern . The greater the state , the greater its ambitions . It is easily within the grasp of five or six great powers to secure the permanent peace of the world , and , far more important than that , to se ...
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... reason is that the German has never emerged from private life . He lives in his house , on his land , in his fac- tory , his tavern , his church ; he lives with his family , with a few friends , with his professional associates . He ...
... reason is that the German has never emerged from private life . He lives in his house , on his land , in his fac- tory , his tavern , his church ; he lives with his family , with a few friends , with his professional associates . He ...
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Page 181 - FATHER, whate'er of earthly bliss Thy sovereign will denies, Accepted at thy throne of grace, Let this petition rise: 2 Give me a calm, a thankful heart, From every murmur free; The blessings of thy grace impart, And make me live to thee. 3 Let the sweet hope that thou art mine My life and death attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end.
Page 482 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 179 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Page 483 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Page 92 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation, of a few surviving spectators.
Page 504 - Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten, Dass ich so traurig bin; Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten, Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.
Page 10 - If, owing to such alterations, immediate danger threatens other states, the powers bind themselves, by peaceful means, or if need be by arms, to bring back the guilty state into the bosom of the Great Alliance.
Page 179 - No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Page 171 - I take it for granted, for instance, if I may venture upon a single example, that statesmen everywhere are agreed that there should be a united, independent, and autonomous Poland, and that henceforth inviolable security of life, of worship, and of industrial and social development should be guaranteed to all peoples who have lived hitherto under the power of governments devoted to a faith and purpose hostile to their own.
Page 823 - Chancellor in the above sense, and add most earnestly that the one way of maintaining the good relations between England and Germany is that they should continue to work together to preserve the peace of Europe...