A Critical Analysis of Patriotism As an Ethical Concept: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 1, 1918Reidenbach, Clarence
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A Critical Analysis of Patriotism As an Ethical Concept: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 1, 1918
Reidenbach, Clarence
Patriotism; Thesis (Ph. D.)
[10] Bertrand Russell: _Why Men Fight_, p. 51.
[11] We have been following here an article by Anne C. E. Allinson
entitled “Virgil and the New Patriotism” in the _Yale Review_, October,
1917.
[12] Prof. Max F. Meyer, of the University of Missouri, in a letter in
the _New York Times_ of August 16, 1917.
[13] McDougall: _Social Psychology_, p. 208. Footnote.
[14] The terms _out-group_ and _in-group_ are borrowed from Sumner. See
W. G. Sumner: _Folkways_.
[15] Alfred Loisy: _The War and Religion_.
[16] _Ibid._, p. 65.
[17] _Ibid._, p. 62.
[18] _Ibid._, p. 20.
[19] _Ibid._, p. 79.
[20] J. M. Robertson: _Patriotism and Empire_.
[21] _Ibid._, p. 36.
[22] Wm. McDougall: _Social Psychology_, p. 55.
[23] Walter Lippmann: _The Stakes of Diplomacy_, p. 208.
[24] J. M. Robertson: _Patriotism and Empire_, p. 138.
[25] Goethe: _Faust_, Part II, Act 2. The translation here used is
quoted by F. M. Stawell: Patriotism and Humanity. _I. J. E._, April,
1915, p. 299.
[26] McDougall: _Social Psychology_, p. 140.
[27] For a book that emphasizes the emulative impulse in its account of
the behavior of nations see Thorstein Veblen: _The Nature of Peace_.
Cf. pp. 31 ff.
[28] William James has contended that the center of the problem of
peace and war is that there is an impulse of pugnacity. Cf. The Moral
Equivalent of War and Remarks at the Peace Banquet in _Memories and
Studies_.
PART II
[29] Graham Wallas: _The Great Society_, p. 50.
[30] _Ibid._, p. 50.
[31] Lessing: _Nathan the Wise_, Act IV, Scene IV. The translation used
here is that of the edition of Geo. Alex. Kohut. New York, 1917.
[32] W. G. Sumner: _Folkways_, p. 23.
[33] For data concerning such societies in America see Sydney Aaron
Phillips: _Patriotic Societies of the United States_. No less than
forty-four are listed.
[34] J. M. Robertson: _Patriotism and Empire_. Part II. The Militarist
Regimen.
[35] Hegel: _The Philosophy of Right_, Dyde’s edition.
[36] _Ibid._, p. 310.
[37] _Ibid._, pp. 313, 314.
[38] Edward Everett Hale: _The Man Without a Country_.
[39] J. M. Robertson: The Jingoism of Poets. See his _Criticisms_, Vol.
II.
[40] Graham Wallas: _The Great Society_, p. 153.
[41] Sumner: _Folkways_, pp. 630, 631.
[42] The Teaching of Patriotism. In _Social and International Ideals_.
Lect. I.
[43] _The Citizen_ of Milford, Conn.
[44] Cf. Harry Pratt Judson: _The Young American_; Ella Lyman Cabot and
Others: _A Course in Citizenship_; Constance D’Arcy Mackay: _Patriotic
Plays_ and _Pageants for Young People_.
[45] Russell: _Why Men Fight_, pp. 160, 161.
[46] W. G. Sumner: _Folkways_, pp. 635, 636.
[47] _Ibid._, p. 177.
[48] Trotter: _Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War_, p. 205.
[49] Russell: _Why Men Fight_, p. 154.
[50] McDougall: _Social Psychology_, p. 97.
[51] Cooley: _Human Nature and the Social Order_, p. 265.
[52] Graham Wallas: _The Great Society_, pp. 281, 282.
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