Essays and Miscellaneous Writings: With a Biographical Sketch, Том 2Macmillan, 1885 |
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Сторінка 541 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Сторінка 192 - But the very essence of patriotism the virtue is self-sacrifice for the general good. It implies no approval or toleration of the anarchy of nations, or any idea that the interests of the particular country in which the patriot happens to live are paramount to those of the rest of the world. It is ready to sacrifice itself for the community to which it belongs, but it claims no right to decide as to the limits of that community. The boast of nationality is no part of the business of such patriotism....
Сторінка 69 - there is no more unquestionable proposition of international law, than the proposition that neutral States are entitled to carry on, upon their own account, a trade with a belligerent.
Сторінка 194 - Were nations to remain for ever disunited, with no thought but their own aggrandizement, and occupied in preparing themselves at an enormous cost to spring on the shortest notice at each other's throats ? Was there no chance of a hearing for common sense and humanity, so that men, whether they were Italian, French, English, Austrian, Russian, or Prussian, should at length, after centuries of unwisdom, admit themselves to be members of a common family whose interests should be considered as a whole,...
Сторінка 189 - But among civilised and enlightened nations war is, because anarchy is, a scandal and a shame. It is this evil — this anarchy of nations — which has wrought more misery and prevented more happiness than perhaps any other of the self-inflicted torments of humanity. It is an evil which is as grave in its negative as in its positive aspect ; which has cursed the world, not only by drenching it with blood and * It need hardly be said that
Сторінка 194 - ... should be disturbed ; and appears to consider the fact that the world was not made exclusively for the benefit of one nation as a disposition of affairs to which nothing short of absolute compulsion should induce it to bow. It is then by confounding these two kinds of patriotism that men are led to tolerate and approve of the anarchy of nations. With true patriotism that anarchy has nothing in common, but, on the contrary, is essentially at issue. If illustration be required of this, it is to...
Сторінка 197 - ... conceivable degree of social intercourse between nations of which some kind or degree of political association is the natural and necessary result. If, for instance, the communication between Englishmen and Frenchmen, instead of being limited, as it now is, to the yearly arrival of a hundred or two of the latter, sea-sick and miserable, in a grim and squalid locality, presided over by a hideously-mutilated statue, and which they imagine to be London, and to the yearly influx into Paris of a stream...
Сторінка 461 - ... communication made it difficult for the poorer classes in some parts of India to obtain a sufficient supply of salt. In 1877 the Government declared that its policy would aim at giving to the people throughout India the means of obtaining an unlimited supply of salt at the cheapest possible cost ; that the interests of the people and of the public revenue are identical, and that the only just and wise system is to levy a low rate of duty on an unrestricted consumption. This principle has been...