 ; and, secondly, unwillingness to see the supreme theatre of human strenuousness closed, and the splendid military aptitudes of men doomed to keep always in a state of latency and never show themselves in action. These insistent unwillingnesses, no less...  International Conciliation - Page 101909Full view - About this book
 | Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - Literary Collections - 1913 - 556 pages
...only gradually and insipidly by "evolution"; and, secondly unwillingness to see the supreme theater of human strenuousness closed, and the splendid military...These insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other aesthetic and ethical insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected. One cannot... | |
 | Norman Foerster - Education, Higher - 1915 - 406 pages
...its disintegrative influences. If we speak of the fear of emancipation from the fear-regime, we put the whole situation into a single phrase ; fear regarding...These insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other aesthetic and ethical insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected. One cannot... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Willard Higley Durham - Authorship - 1917 - 386 pages
...its disintegrative influences. If we speak of the fear of emancipation from the fear-regime, we put the whole situation into a single phrase ; fear regarding...These insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other aesthetic and ethical insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected. One cannot... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - American essays - 1918 - 504 pages
...only gradually and insipidly by "evolution"; and, secondly, unwillingness to see the supreme theater of human strenuousness closed, and the splendid military...These insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other aesthetic and ethical insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected. One cannot... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1923 - 444 pages
...only gradually and insipidly by "evolution" ; and, secondly, unwillingness to see the supreme theater of human strenuousness closed, and the splendid military...insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other esthetic insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected. One cannot meet them effectively... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 460 pages
...only gradually and insipidly by "evolution"; and, secondly, unwillingness to see the supreme theater of human strenuousness closed, and the splendid military...insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other esthetic insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected. One cannot meet them effectively... | |
 | American literature - 1910 - 768 pages
...only gradually and insipidly, by "evolution"; and, secondly, unwillingness to see the supreme theater of human strenuousness closed, and the splendid military aptitudes of men doomed to remain always in a state of latency and never to show themselves in action. These insistent unwillingnesses,... | |
 | Daniel Pick - Technology & Engineering - 1996 - 308 pages
...sense of tragedy in the name of a gradual and insipid peaceful evolution? There will always be a deep unwillingness to see 'the supreme theatre of human...state of latency and never show themselves in action' (p. 12). Pacifist talk of war's horror and expense misses the point that both those factors are precisely... | |
 | Henry Barbera - Social change - 262 pages
...William James in a famous 1913 essay called "The Moral Equivalent of War"; here is a passage from it: ... it all seems to lead back to two unwillingnesses of...These insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other aesthetic and ethical insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected. One cannot... | |
 | Ronald Jager - Philosophy - 2002 - 528 pages
...only gradually and insipidly by "evolution" ; and, secondly, unwillingness to see the supreme theater of human strenuousness closed, and the splendid military aptitudes of men doomed to keep themselves always in a state of latency and never show themselves in action" (Pragmatism and Other... | |
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