A World in Ferment; Interpretations of the War for a New World
A World in Ferment; Interpretations of the War for a New World
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
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It is a controversy over ideals and national purposes, and it takes rank with the most magnificent events in all history; and 1 use the word magnificent in its literal sense Digitized by VjOOQIC NATION AUTY AND BEYOND 135 of great-making, a great making-over of issues and tendencies. What we are witnessing is the end of the old notions of Nationality. We are standing at the bloody grave of an ideal that is a thousand years old, one that has made the history of Europe since the fall of the Roman... Empire. And we are witnessing the birth of a new ideal, an ideal of Nationality with new human significance, new human service, and new human helpfulness — an ideal of Nation- ality higher than mere self-aggrandizement, or economic wealth, or military power. This is an ideal which calls to the heart and to the mind of every American, and stirs his soul with the hope and the desire that his nation may participate in the upbuilding of a new concep- tion of national purpose that shall call upon us to see something in a nation that is beyond population and wealth and trade and influence, and that, whether the nation be great or whether it be small, shall give it an honorable place in the great structure which is civiliza- tion.
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