Miscellaneous Pamphlets (Classic Reprint)
James William
Miscellaneous Pamphlets (Classic Reprint)
James William
- Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
- EAN: 9781332530533
- Ilość stron: 28
- Format: 15.2x22.9cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: Miscellaneous Pamphlets (Classic Reprint) - James William
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Thus were the more martial tribes selected, and in chiefs and peoples a pure pugnacity and love of glory came to mingle with the more fundamental appetite for plunder.
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors. Showing war's irrationality and horror is of no effect upon him. The horrors make the fascination. War is the strong life; it is life in extremis; war-taxes are the only ones men never hesitate to pay, as the budgets of all nations show us.
History is a bath of blood. The Iliad is one long recital of how Diomedes and Ajax, Sarpedon and Hector killed. No detail of the wounds they made is spared us, and the Greek mind fed upon the story. Greek history is a panorama of jingoism and imperialism - war for war's sake, all the citizens being warriors. It is horrible reading, because of the irrationality of it all - save for the purpose of making "history" - and the history is that of the utter ruin of a civilization in intellectual respects perhaps the highest the earth has ever seen.
Those wars were purely piratical. Pride, gold, women, slaves, excitement, were their only motives. In the Peloponnesian war, for example, the Athenians ask the inhabitants of Melos (the island where the "Venus of Milo" was found, hitherto neutral, to own their lordship.
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Szczegóły: Miscellaneous Pamphlets (Classic Reprint) - James William
Nazwa: Miscellaneous Pamphlets (Classic Reprint)
Autor: James William
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332530533
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 28
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka
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