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Page 66 - WHERE is the true man's fatherland ? Is it where he by chance is born ? Doth not the yearning spirit scorn In such scant borders to be spanned ? O, yes ' his fatherland must be As the blue heaven wide and free...
Page 119 - That a commission of five members be appointed by the President of the United States to consider the expediency of utilizing existing international agencies for the purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of the world by international agreement, and of constituting the combined navies of the world an international force for the preservation of universal peace, and to consider and report upon any other means to diminish the expenditures of government for military purposes and to lessen the...
Page 51 - ... their industry, their arts, their genius, clearing the earth, peopling the deserts, improving creation under the eye of the Creator, and uniting, for the good of all, these two irresistible and infinite powers, the fraternity of men and the power of God.
Page 66 - As the blue heaven, wide and free. Is it alone where freedom is ? Where God is God, and man is man.? Doth he not claim a broader span For the soul's love of home than this ? Oh, yes ! his fatherland must be As the blue heaven, wide and free.
Page 90 - If now we can negotiate and put through a positive agreement with some great nation to abide the adjudication of an international arbitral court in every issue which cannot be settled by negotiation, no matter what it involves, whether honor, territory, or money, we shall have made a long step forward by demonstrating that it is possible for two nations at least to establish as between them the same system of due process of law that exists between individuals under a government.
Page 51 - A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in public museums, just as an instrument of torture is now, and people will be astonished how such a thing could have been.
Page 66 - Oh yes ! his fatherland must be As the blue heaven wide and free ! Where'er a human heart doth wear Joy's myrtle-wreath or sorrow's gyves, Where'er a human spirit strives After a life more true and fair, There is the true man's birthplace grand, His is a world-wide fatherland ! Where'er a single slave doth...
Page 69 - Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?" The sciences have removed — or are rapidly removing — the artificial barriers between us and are enabling us to see one another as human beings. Up to the present time, support for the ideal of the "brotherhood of man" has had to depend solely...
Page 97 - ... peace. What effect this can have on the peace of the world has been lucidly pointed out in Jane Addams' Newer Ideals of Peace. However this may be, brotherhood of man is attracting more response in our day than the older school of patriotism, which saw no good outside its own border. The many labor organizations and the social democracy of Europe, with all their shortcomings, are yet a groping towards brotherhood. Democracy is coming to its own in this century, and democracy, in its ideals at...
Page 93 - ... the new world, as spiritual and ethical forces are always greatest. These movements are very pronounced. They show the mood, the temper, the trend of the century. The first and greatest of these new facts is this: we are at last passing up into that realm of ethics where we are seeing that the same ethic is binding upon groups of people that controls and determines the relations of individuals to each other. • The trouble has been that we have been living under two standards of ethics — Christian...