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Title: The Soul of Democracy
The Philosophy Of The World War In Relation To Human Liberty

Author: Edward Howard Griggs

Release Date: January 26, 2004 [EBook #10837]

Language: English

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THE SOUL OF DEMOCRACY

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD WAR
IN RELATION TO HUMAN LIBERTY

BY

EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS

Man for the State means autocracy and imperialism;
MAN FOR MANKIND is the soul of democracy.

1918

CONTENTS

I THE WORLD TRAGEDY
II THE CONFLICT OF IDEAS IN THE WAR
III THE IDEAS FOR WHICH THE ALLIED NATIONS FIGHT
IV MORAL STANDARDS AND THE MORAL ORDER
V THE PRESENT STATE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
VI THE ETHICS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIP
VII AMERICA'S DUTY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
VIII THE GOSPEL AND THE SUPERSTITION OF NON-RESISTANCE
IX PREPAREDNESS FOR SELF-DEFENSE
X RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE WAR
XI THE WAR AND EDUCATION
XII SOCIALISM AND THE WAR
XIII THE WAR AND FEMINISM
XIV THE TRANSFORMATION OF DEMOCRACY
XV DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION
XVI MENACES OF DEMOCRACY
XVII THE DILEMMA OF DEMOCRACY
XVIII PATERNALISM VERSUS DEMOCRACY
XIX THE SOLUTION FOR DEMOCRACY
XX TRAINING FOR MORAL LEADERSHIP
XXI DEMOCRACY AND SACRIFICE
XXII THE HOUR OF SACRIFICE

THE SOUL OF DEMOCRACY

I

THE WORLD TRAGEDY

We are living under the shadow of the greatest world tragedy in the
history of mankind. Not even the overthrow of the old Roman empire was
so colossal a disaster as this. Inevitably we are bewildered by it.
Utterly unanticipated, at least in its world extent, for we had believed
mankind too far advanced for such a chaos of brute force to recur, it
overwhelms our vision. Man had been going forward steadily, inventing
and discovering, until in the last hundred years his whole world had
been transformed. Suddenly the entire range of invention is turned
against Man. The machinery of comfort and progress becomes the enginery
of devastation. Under such a shock, we ask, "