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Patriotism as an Ethical Concept

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Part II Graham Wallas: The Great Society, P. 5029

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.

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.

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