A Critical Analysis of Patriotism As an Ethical Concept / A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 1, 1918

by Clarence Reidenbach

Part II

[29] Graham Wallas: The Great Society, p. 50.

[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.