The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife By: Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)
First Page: THE HEALING OF NATIONS AND THE HIDDEN SOURCES OF THEIR STRIFE By Edward Carpenter 1915 " The Tree of Life ... whose leaves are for the Healing of the Nations " CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTORY II. WAR MADNESS III. THE ROOTS OF THE GREAT WAR IV. THE CASE AGAINST GERMANY V. THE CASE FOR GERMANY VI. THE HEALING OF NATIONS VII. PATRIOTISM AND INTERNATIONALISM VIII. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR AND RECRUITING IX. CONSCRIPTION X. HOW SHALL THE PLAGUE BE STAYED? XI. COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY THE PROSPERITY OF A CLASS XII. COLONIES AND SEAPORTS XIII. WAR AND THE SEX IMPULSE XIV. THE OVER POPULATION SCARE XV. THE FRIENDLY AND THE FIGHTING INSTINCTS XVI. NEVER AGAIN! XVII. THE TREE OF LIFE APPENDIX A New and Better Peace The Change from the Old Germany to the New Classes in Germany for and against the War Political Ignorance Purpose of the War: Max Harden England's Perfidy: Professors Haeckel and Eucken Manifesto of Professor Eucken Nietzsche on Disarmament The Effect of Disarmament The Principle of Nationality: Winston Churchill Conscription Neutralization of the Sea: H.G. Wells The War and Democracy: Arnold Bennett The Future Settlement: G. Lowes Dickinson Brutality of Warfare: H.M. Tomlinson Patriotism: Romain Rolland No Patriotism in Business! Manifesto, Independent Labour Party Responsibility of the whole Capitalist Class Text of Karl Liebknecht's Protest in Reichstag The Russian Danger Letter on Russia by P. Kropotkin On the Future of Europe, by the same Servia: R.W. Seton Watson The Battlefield: Walt Whitman Chinese Christians on the War: Dr. A. Salter Essential Friendliness of Peoples Reconciliation in Death Christmas at the Front, 1914 Letter from the Trenches by Baron Marschall von Bieberstein I INTRODUCTORY The following Studies and Notes, made during the earlier period of the present war and now collected together for publication, do not as will be evident to the reader pretend to any sort of completeness in their embrace of the subject, or finality in its presentation. Rather they are scattered thoughts suggested by the large and tangled drama which we are witnessing; and I am sufficiently conscious that their expression involves contradictions as well as repetitions. The truth is that affairs of this kind like all the great issues of human life, Love, Politics, Religion, and so forth, do not, at their best, admit of final dispatch in definite views and phrases. They are too vast and complex for that. It is, indeed, quite probable that such things cannot be adequately represented or put before the human mind without logical inconsistencies and contradictions. But (perhaps for that very reason) they are the subjects of the most violent and dogmatic differences of opinion. Nothing people quarrel about more bitterly than Politics unless it be Religion: both being subjects of which all that one can really say for certain is that nobody understands them. When, as in the present war, a dozen or more nations enter into conflict and hurl at each other accusations of the angriest sort (often quite genuinely made and yet absolutely irreconcilable one with another), and when on the top of that scores and hundreds of writers profess to explain the resulting situation in a few brief phrases (but unfortunately their explanations are all different), and calmly affix the blame on "Russia" or "Germany" or "France" or "England" just as if these names represented certain responsible individuals, supposed for the purposes of the argument to be of very wily and far scheming disposition whereas it is perfectly well known that they really represent most complex whirlpools of political forces, in which the merest accidents (as whether two members of a Cabinet have quarrelled, or an Ambassador's dinner has disagreed with him) may result in a long and fatal train of consequences it becomes obvious that all so called "explanations" (though it may be right that they should be attempted) fall infinitely short, of the reality... Continue reading book >>

The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife By: Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)

First Page:

THE HEALING OF NATIONS AND THE HIDDEN SOURCES OF THEIR STRIFE

By Edward Carpenter

1915

" The Tree of Life ... whose leaves are for the Healing of the Nations "

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTORY

II. WAR MADNESS

III. THE ROOTS OF THE GREAT WAR

IV. THE CASE AGAINST GERMANY

V. THE CASE FOR GERMANY

VI. THE HEALING OF NATIONS

VII. PATRIOTISM AND INTERNATIONALISM

VIII. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR AND RECRUITING

IX. CONSCRIPTION

X. HOW SHALL THE PLAGUE BE STAYED?

XI. COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY THE PROSPERITY OF A CLASS

XII. COLONIES AND SEAPORTS

XIII. WAR AND THE SEX IMPULSE

XIV. THE OVER POPULATION SCARE

XV. THE FRIENDLY AND THE FIGHTING INSTINCTS

XVI. NEVER AGAIN!

XVII. THE TREE OF LIFE

APPENDIX

A New and Better Peace

The Change from the Old Germany to the New

Classes in Germany for and against the War

Political Ignorance

Purpose of the War: Max Harden

England's Perfidy: Professors Haeckel and Eucken

Manifesto of Professor Eucken

Nietzsche on Disarmament

The Effect of Disarmament

The Principle of Nationality: Winston Churchill

Conscription

Neutralization of the Sea: H.G. Wells

The War and Democracy: Arnold Bennett

The Future Settlement: G. Lowes Dickinson

Brutality of Warfare: H.M. Tomlinson

Patriotism: Romain Rolland

No Patriotism in Business!

Manifesto, Independent Labour Party

Responsibility of the whole Capitalist Class

Text of Karl Liebknecht's Protest in Reichstag

The Russian Danger

Letter on Russia by P. Kropotkin

On the Future of Europe, by the same

Servia: R.W. Seton Watson

The Battlefield: Walt Whitman

Chinese Christians on the War: Dr. A. Salter

Essential Friendliness of Peoples

Reconciliation in Death

Christmas at the Front, 1914

Letter from the Trenches by Baron Marschall von Bieberstein

INTRODUCTORY

The following Studies and Notes, made during the earlier period of the present war and now collected together for publication, do not as will be evident to the reader pretend to any sort of completeness in their embrace of the subject, or finality in its presentation. Rather they are scattered thoughts suggested by the large and tangled drama which we are witnessing; and I am sufficiently conscious that their expression involves contradictions as well as repetitions.

The truth is that affairs of this kind like all the great issues of human life, Love, Politics, Religion, and so forth, do not, at their best, admit of final dispatch in definite views and phrases. They are too vast and complex for that. It is, indeed, quite probable that such things cannot be adequately represented or put before the human mind without logical inconsistencies and contradictions. But (perhaps for that very reason) they are the subjects of the most violent and dogmatic differences of opinion. Nothing people quarrel about more bitterly than Politics unless it be Religion: both being subjects of which all that one can really say for certain is that nobody understands them.

When, as in the present war, a dozen or more nations enter into conflict and hurl at each other accusations of the angriest sort (often quite genuinely made and yet absolutely irreconcilable one with another), and when on the top of that scores and hundreds of writers profess to explain the resulting situation in a few brief phrases (but unfortunately their explanations are all different), and calmly affix the blame on "Russia" or "Germany" or "France" or "England" just as if these names represented certain responsible individuals, supposed for the purposes of the argument to be of very wily and far scheming disposition whereas it is perfectly well known that they really represent most complex whirlpools of political forces, in which the merest accidents (as whether two members of a Cabinet have quarrelled, or an Ambassador's dinner has disagreed with him) may result in a long and fatal train of consequences it becomes obvious that all so called "explanations" (though it may be right that they should be attempted) fall infinitely short, of the reality... Continue reading book >>

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