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.)
[53] M. Gabriel Tarde has made more of this disposition than any other
writer. See Tarde: _The Laws of Imitation_. His definition of imitation
is on p. XIV, in preface to the second edition.
[54] Sumner: _Folkways_, p. 5. Italics mine.
[55] C. D. Burns: _The Morality of Nations_, p. 106.
[56] Lippmann: _The Stakes of Diplomacy_, p. 51.
[57] Sumner: _Folkways_, p. 30.
[58] _Ibid._, pp. 77, 173, 174.
[59] _Ibid._, p. 71.
[60] Cf. C. D. Burns: _The Morality of Nations_, pp. 14, 15.
[61] Lessing: _Nathan the Wise_, Act III, Sc. VII. Kohut’s edition.
[62] Cooley: _Human Nature and the Social Order_, p. 36. Quoted by
Ross: _Social Psychology_, p. 4.
[63] Ross: _Social Psychology_, p. 273.
[64] Russell: _Why Men Fight_, p. 236. The fact that patriotism has
been relatively uncriticized is not its only source of strength; it is
an important one.
[65] Sumner: _Folkways_, p. 95. Italics mine.
PART III
[66] The beliefs, however, are often closely related to the impulses
and habits, and may simply be the latter raised to the level of
consciousness. In fact, when an impulse or a habit gets raised to the
conscious level, it becomes a belief.
[67] Graham Wallas: _The Great Society_, p. 36.
[68] Alfred Tennyson. Poem has no title. Stanza given is the opening
one. See _The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson_, London and New York,
MacMillan Co., 1892, p. 64.
[69] Herbert Spencer: _Social Statics_, p. 283.
[70] Daniel Webster: Reply to Hayne. Jan. 26, 1830.
[71] Green: Works. Vol. II. _The Principles of Political Obligation_,
p. 384. Italics mine.
[72] Cf. Thomas Hobbes: _Leviathan_.
[73] J. S. Mill. In letter to John Sterling, Oct. 20-22, 1831. Elliott:
_Letters_, Vol. I, p. 15.
[74] Josiah Quincy, Jr.: Second Centennial of Boston. Sept. 17, 1830.
[75] L. T. Chamberlin: _Patriotism and The Moral Law_, p. 10.
[76] J. S. Mill: _Principles of Political Economy_, Vol. II, p. 397.
[77] Cf. Aristotle: _Politics_, Bk. I, Chap. 1, p. 3. Jowett’s edition.
[78] Cf. Plato: _The Republic_.
[79] Edward Everett Hale: _The Man Without a Country_. Preface, pp. IV,
V. School edition; Boston; Little, Brown, and Co.; 1905.
[80] The term “syndicalism” as here used means roughly the principle
that societal control should be in the hands of organizations based
upon the fact of common occupation. Cf. G. D. H. Cole: _The World of
Labour_.
[81] Plato: _Crito_, pp. 371 ff. Jowett’s edition.
[82] Bernard Bosanquet: _Social and International Ideals_, p. 8.
[83] Bertrand Russell: _Why Men Fight_, p. 55.
[84] Herbert Spencer: _Social Statics_, pp. 296, 297.
[85] Loisy: _The War and Religion_, pp. 36, 37.
[86] Zimmermann: _On National Pride_, p. 94.
[87] Patrick Henry: Speech in Virginia Legislature, 1775.
[88] Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address. Nov. 19, 1863.
[89] Bacon: _De Augmentis Scientarum_, B. VI, Ch. III. (Spedding and
Ellis). Quoted by Alexander F. Shand: _The Foundations of Character_,
p. 7.
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