Download or read book The War and Democracy Classic Reprint written by R. W. Seton-Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War and Democracy It seems to me that the amount of lawlessness and crime, the amount of waste and futility, the amount of war and war possibility and war danger in the world are just the measure of the present inadequacy of the world's system of collective organisations to the purpose before them. It follows from this very directly that only one thing can end war on the earth, and that is a subtle mental development, an idea, the development of the idea of the world commonweal in the collective mind. - H. G. Wells in 1908. This is a testing time for Democracy. The people of Great Britain, to whom all the world looks as the trustees, together with France and America, of the great democratic tradition, are brought face to face, for the first time, with their full ultimate responsibility as British citizens. Upon the way in which that responsibility is realised and discharged de pends the future of the democratic principle, not only in these islands, but throughout the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The War and American Democracy Classic Reprint written by Wilbur Cortez Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War and American Democracy But it is, undoubtedly, due in still larger measure to the methods of war which Germany has re-introduced into a civilization whence men had fondly hoped, before this war began, they had been forever driven out, that the conflict has deepened in intensity. Whatever parts the governments may have played, recent events and observers unite in forc ing the conviction that this is now a peoples' war. That this is largely the effect of frightfulness no disinterested person can well deny; and Germany's best friends must deplore a policy which has lost her more than a great defeat, and recruited the ranks and determination of her opponents more than a victory of the Allies. If the latent barbarism beneath the veneer of civilization has proved greater than we thought, it is no less evident that men's nerves have not suffered as much deterioration from modern conditions as was believed by those who sought through such means to overpower these opponents. And the demonstrated futility of such operations, were there no other reason for their dis continuance, portends their re-elimination from the military code. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Democracy After the War Classic Reprint written by J. A. Hobson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy After the War Now, the first requisite to this clearing of purpose and this intelligent co-operation is a survey of the ground and forces of the enemy. For the people can only gain mastery by defeating and ejecting those who hold it now. The war has here done good service by lighting up the country and bringing out in clear relief the full alliance of reactionary forces with which democracy is called upon to deal. Militarism stands out so conspicuously in this alliance that it seems best to take it for a starting-point in our survey and then to consideij the political, economic and social supports which gather round it. Examining the bonds of sympathy and interest which unite the reactionary forces, we find them centred in the arbitrary will to power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Liberty and Democracy and Other Essays in War Time Classic Reprint written by Hartley Burr Alex and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Liberty and Democracy and Other Essays in War-Time But while a programme of reconstruction is yet to make, it may be worth a word here to define the line which the author's thinking repeatedly brings him to believe such te construction must follow. This is the educa tional, not in any narrow scholastic way, but broadly, touching the whole life of the citizen and the whole endeavour of the state. Democracy can only flourish where the citi zens are both intelligent and alert, intelligent as to the purposes of their society and alert as to the means of attaining these: unceasing vigilance is the preserver of freedom, but this must be accompanied by a no less unceasing consideration of the ends of human life if the liberty is to be worth preserving. He who would duly enquire about the best form of the state ought first to determine which is the most eligible life. Aristotle's aphorism is the core of political wisdom; and its applied meaning can only be that the citizen who is a true warden of his rights must be an athlete of the mind, forever trained and in training. The problem of due training is the problem of political self-preservation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World War Jefferson and Democracy Classic Reprint written by Franklin P. Foster and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World War, Jefferson and Democracy Boldly advocated friendly and considerate treatment of her in the times succeeding the contribution of her arms to the triumph of our independence; who alone of great Americans in his day placed a sane and kindly estimate on the character Of the French patriots and people, or on the cause and virtue of their revolution;1 who was standing for peace between the United States and France, in 1797, when partisan enemies, under a pretext Of doubtful merit, were crying for her invasion by an American army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book How the War for Democracy Can Be Won Classic Reprint written by Isaac Lockhart Peebles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How the War for Democracy Can Be Won much is being said and written about war, and hence we have concluded that a Scriptural production on the subject will be pertinent just now, and especially helpful towards the ending of the one now in pro gress in the orient. Therefore, whatever this work shall do towards that end, we shall gladly give all the glory and honor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The War of Democracy the Allies Statement written by James Bryce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War of Democracy, the Allies' Statement: Chapter on the Fundamental Significance of the Struggle for a New Europe The pamphlets and articles contained in this collee tion fall into two classes. Some of them are intended to elucidate particular questions which have arisen in the course of the present war. Those of the other and larger class deal with more general matters, and investigate the causes Of the war and the general issues Of principle and practice which it has raised. In this brief introduction I shall endeavour to summarize the more important Of these larger issues and to bespeak for them the attention which they do not seem to have yet fully received in some at least of the neutral na tions. My aim is simply to recapitulate, without argument or rhetoric, the salient facts that bear upon the conduct of the War, and to ask readers in neutral countries to re ect on what these facts show, and to form their own judgment accordingly. The present war differs from all that have gone before it not only in its vast scale and in the volume Of misery it has brought upon the world, but also in the fact that it is a war Of Principles, and a war in which the permanent interests, not merely Of the belligerent Powers but of all nations, are involved as such interests were never involved before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The World War and Leadership in a Democracy Classic Reprint written by Richard Theodore Ely and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World War and Leadership in a Democracy While the lecture has been very greatly elaborated, the book is still very brief. Each of the several chapters could be expanded to an entire treatise. Perhaps, however, what is needed now is an out line programme for present use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Democracies at War written by Dan Reiter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Democracy on Trial in the World War Classic Reprint written by William Backus Guitteau and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy on Trial, in the World War This ambitious program was not the dream of a few German visionaries or jingoes. It was an actual plan, care fully worked out in detail by the war-mad clique which rules Germany. The German people, it is true, were not consulted in the matter; there was no need to consult them, for Germany is not ruled by her people, but by the Kaiser, supported by the military leaders and the Prussian aristo cracy. So audacious and so insolent was this German plan of world power that it startles our belief; yet in the fate ful year of 1914 it came near to realization. Now strikes the hour for Germany's rising power, wrote one of her editors1 as the German armies were launched across neutral Belgium to strike France at a point where she would not expect attack. Only the heroic resistance of the little Bel gian army, the defeat of the German hordes by France in the battle of the Marne, and England's unbroken power on the sea, prevented Germany's dream of world empire from becoming an accomplished fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Great War Vol 5 written by George H. Allen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great War, Vol. 5: The Triumph of Democracy Summary by Gen. Pershing of U. S. Operations in France from May 26, 1917, until the Signing of the Armistice, as Made Public by Secretary Of War in Annual Report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Democracy and Peace Classic Reprint written by James Bissett Pratt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy and Peace This is not a war book. It is a book about democracy and peace, about America's ideals, her duties and her dangers. Incidentally it discusses some of the problems raised by the present con fliet. And its position on these questions is not one that is likely to please every reader. For the writer of this book is a pacificist who believes in war. His conclusions, therefore, will probably gain the approval of neither the militarists nor the peace-at-any-price men. Nor will they suit that large class of out - and-outers who have no patience with any statement that has qualifications. The situation which we are facing today is, in the au thor's opinion, too complex to be expressed in a simple formula. A statement of our national duty which would be at all complete must contain more than one qualifying phrase. The truth about America cannot be compressed into a slogan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World and Democracy Classic Reprint written by Lyman P. Powell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World and Democracy This book does not undertake to retell the history of the Great World War. Its Object is to give a body of material so arranged as to furnish a suitable and inter esting approach toward an appreciation of the convie tions and ideals that led the free and peace-loving peoples of the world to unite in opposing the most powerful and aggressive military power ever developed in human his tory. Its entire aim is to lead to a sane, helpful, exalted patriotism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Democracy and Reaction Classic Reprint written by L. T. Hobhouse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Democracy and Reaction Braced the Imperial mission, and beginning a war with an appeal to the sentiment of humanity, ended it, after the manner of the Old World, with the acquisition of territory beyond the seas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Problems of Readjustment After the War Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Problems of Readjustment After the War Is this the end of European democracy? Will example and military pressure cause the end of American democracy? Are the people of the world giving over their destinies to the judgment of a handful of statesmen and war i'loi's, practically designated by themselves? Have the peoples as a whole no wisdom left? Is there a difference in the makeup of the hu man mind between times of war and times of peace? Or when the cyclone is past, will the owners of the various ships of state again claim their right to their own property? These crit ical questions come home with peculiar force to the people of the United States; for popular government in America depends upon the power of democracy to repel the shock of mili tarism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Democracy written by Paul Gottfried and published by Arktos. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and Democracy presents a selection of essays and reviews by Paul Gottfried written from 1975 to the present. They cover a variety of topics, both historical and contemporary, ranging from Oswald Spengler and the Frankfurt School to the destruction of classical liberalism, the dumbing down of higher education and the increasing dominance of administration in democratic governments. Most crucially, Gottfried sees Western governments as engaged in a messianic fantasy of bringing democracy to the world, an imperialist endeavor that has only brought disaster to all nations concerned, while liberties at home are being gradually curtailed. A recurring theme is the transformation of the modern West, and how the meanings behind the ideas and concepts which helped to build our civilization have been altered to create a new type of society that bears a connection with that of our forefathers in name only. He points out that the history we are taught and the "Right" that we know today have become signifiers for a very different reality that is in many ways opposed to what they stood for previously. Gottfried remains tenacious in his defense of the original meaning and purpose behind the conservative movement, which favors organic social growth as opposed to imposition through force and an expanding bureaucracy. "The notion that all countries must be brought - willingly or kicking and screaming - into the democratic fold is an invitation to belligerence. The notion that only democracies such as ours can be peaceful is what Edmund Burke called an 'armed doctrine.' ... It is simply ridiculous to treat the pursuit of peace based on world democratic conversion as a peaceful enterprise. This is a barely disguised adaptation of the Communist goal of bringing about world harmony through worldwide socialist revolution." Paul Gottfried (b. 1941) has been one of America's leading intellectual historians and paleoconservative thinkers for over 40 years, and is the author of many books, including the landmark Conservatism in America (2007). A critic of the neoconservative movement, he has warned against the growing lack of distinctions between the Democratic and Republican parties and the rise of the managerial state. He has been acquainted with many of the leading American political figures of recent decades, including Richard Nixon and Patrick Buchanan. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient.
Download or read book German Social Democracy During the War Classic Reprint written by Edwyn Bevan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from German Social Democracy During the War Writer in the fourth year of the war cannot do. Yet the outlines are already established, and one may hope that if such an account as the present one would need a great deal of supplementing in the light of fuller knowledge, it would not need much correction. It seems of great importance that we in England should gain without delay such clearness as is now possible on the part played by Social Democracy during these fateful years in Germany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
