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Patriotism as an Ethical Concept

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Part IV J. M. Robertson: Patriotism and Empire137

138 W. Trotter: The Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War.

139 T. Veblen: The Nature of Peace.

140 Loisy: The War and Religion.

141 H. H. Powers: The Things Men Fight For.

142 Cf. statement of procedure in the preface.

143 Sophie Bryant: Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IX, p. 678:2.

144 Of course, one can care about the fate of countries other than his own and be interested in institutions of another order, the church, for instance, but when he does these things, he does them in his character as something other than a patriot. No person is merely a patriot. In so far as he is a patriot his interest is absorbed in his country.

145 Royce: The World and the Individual, Vol. I, p. 292.

146 Veblen: The Nature of Peace. Cf. Chap. IV, Peace Without Honour.

147 Bosanquet: The Principle of Individuality and Value, p. 68.

148 Ibid., margin of p. 68.

149 E. B. Talbot: Individuality and Freedom. Philosophical Review, November, 1909, p. 600.

150 Aristotle: Politics. Book II, Chap. 2, p. 28. Jowett’s translation.

151 Gertrude B. King: The Servile Mind. I. J. E., July, 1916, p. 503.

152 Ellen B. Talbot: Individuality and Freedom. Philosophical Review, November, 1909, p. 603.

153 Warner Fite: Individualism, p. 14.

154 Ellen B. Talbot: Individuality and Freedom. Philosophical Review, November, 1909, p. 602.

155 Cf. Aristotle: Politics. Book I, Chap. 2, p. 4. Jowett’s edition.

156 Warner Fite: Individualism, p. 126.

157 Ibid., p. 122.

158 Royce: The Problem of Christianity, Vol. I, p. 152.

159 Ibid., preface, p. XXV.

160 Fite: Individualism, p. 173.

161 Howison: The Limits of Evolution, p. 7.

162 C. M. Bakewell: Royce As an Interpreter of American Ideals. I. J. E., p. 307, April, 1917, Vol. XXVII.

163 Joseph Mazzini: On the Duties of Man, Ch. V. In E. A. Venturi: Joseph Mazzini, p. 312.

164 Ibid., p. 313.

165 Ibid., pp. 314, 315.

166 Arthur Ponsonby, I. J. E., Jan., 1915, pp. 143, 144.

167 Cited by Edward Everett Hale: The Man Without a Country, introduction, p. VIII.

168 McDougall: Social Psychology, p. 85.

169 Green: Works, Vol. II, Principles of Political Obligation, p. 523.

170 Sumner: Folkways, pp. 566, 567.

171 Spencer: Social Statics, p. 300.

172 Green: Works, Vol. II, Principles of Political Obligation, table of contents, p. XXXV, for p. 446.

173 H. C. Brown: Human Nature and the State, I. J. E., Jan., 1916, p. 179.

174 Spencer: Social Statics, p. 279.

175 Green: Works, Vol. II, Principles of Political Obligation, p. 444.

176 Rose: Nationality in Modern History, p. 12.

177 J. Berg Esenwein: Short Story Masterpieces: Russian. Introduction to Gogol, p. 67.

178 Warner Fite: Individualism, p. 100. Italics mine. The last sentence, also, comes before the rest of the passage in the author’s own text.

179 Ibid., p. 112.

180 Joseph Mazzini: On the Duties of Man, Ch. V. In E. A. Venturi: Joseph Mazzini, p. 317.

181 Ernest Barker: The Discredited State, Political Quarterly, Feb., 1915, p. 111.

182 Robert C. Winthrop: The Patriot Traveler in a Foreign Land. See H. P. Judson: The Young American, p. 118.

183 Veblen: The Nature of Peace, p. 142.

184 C. D. Burns: The Morality of Nations, pp. 7, 65.

185 Russell: Why Men Fight, p. 151.

186 Lippmann: The Stakes of Diplomacy, p. 38.

187 Ibid., p. 50.

188 Cf. Graham Wallas: The Great Society, p. 308.

189 Zimmermann: On National Pride, p. 137.

190 Royce: The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, p. 212. Italics mine.

191 Anne C. E. Allinson: Virgil and the New Patriotism, Yale Review, October, 1917, p. 141.

192 Aristotle: Politics, Book III, Ch. 3, p. 72. Jowett’s translation.

193 Graham Wallas: The Great Society, p. 10.

194 Sumner: Folkways, p. 94.

195 A. C. Haddon: Universal Races Congress, Record of Proceedings, London, 1911, p. 26. Quoted by G. F. Barbour, I. J. E., Oct., 1913, pp. 14, 15. Footnote.

196 G. F. Barbour, I. J. E., Oct., 1913, p. 15.

197 Royce: Provincialism, p. 99. In Race Questions and Other American Problems.

198 Ibid., p. 99.

199 Ibid., p. 65.

200 Ibid., pp. 100, 102.

201 F. Melian Stawell, I. J. E., April, 1915, pp. 296, 297.

202 C. D. Burns and L. S. Woolf have made a good deal of these tendencies. Cf. C. D. Burns: The Morality of Nations, and L. S. Woolf: International Government.

203 C. D. Burns: The Morality of Nations, p. 237.

204 For these and similar facts see C. D. Burns: The State and Its External Relations. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1915-1916, p. 300.

205 Lippmann: The Stakes of Diplomacy, p. 45.

206 The New York Times of Nov. 27, 1917, contained a report to the effect that the United States Government was preparing to notify Berlin of the steps that had been taken in the United States regarding the internment of unnaturalized Germans in this country. It was the purpose to inform Germany of the number of those interned, who they were, and how they were treated. The object was to reassure Germany that the interned Germans were not being ill-treated, and so to protect Americans interned in Germany.

207 Trotter: The Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War, pp. 121, 122.

208 Zimmerman: On National Pride, p. 306.

209 Lippmann: The Stakes of Diplomacy, p. 224.

210 H. H. Powers: The Things Men Fight For, p. 7.

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