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 III

[66] The beliefs, however, are often closely related to the impulses and habits, and may simply be the latter raised to the level of consciousness. In fact, when an impulse or a habit gets raised to the conscious level, it becomes a belief.

[67] Graham Wallas: The Great Society, p. 36.

[68] Alfred Tennyson. Poem has no title. Stanza given is the opening one. See The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, London and New York, MacMillan Co., 1892, p. 64.

[69] Herbert Spencer: Social Statics, p. 283.

[70] Daniel Webster: Reply to Hayne. Jan. 26, 1830.

[71] Green: Works. Vol. II. The Principles of Political Obligation, p. 384. Italics mine.

[72] Cf. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan.

[73] J. S. Mill. In letter to John Sterling, Oct. 20-22, 1831. Elliott: Letters, Vol. I, p. 15.

[74] Josiah Quincy, Jr.: Second Centennial of Boston. Sept. 17, 1830.

[75] L. T. Chamberlin: Patriotism and The Moral Law, p. 10.

[76] J. S. Mill: Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II, p. 397.

[77] Cf. Aristotle: Politics, Bk. I, Chap. 1, p. 3. Jowett’s edition.

[78] Cf. Plato: The Republic.

[79] Edward Everett Hale: The Man Without a Country. Preface, pp. IV, V. School edition; Boston; Little, Brown, and Co.; 1905.

[80] The term “syndicalism” as here used means roughly the principle that societal control should be in the hands of organizations based upon the fact of common occupation. Cf. G. D. H. Cole: The World of Labour.

[81] Plato: Crito, pp. 371 ff. Jowett’s edition.

[82] Bernard Bosanquet: Social and International Ideals, p. 8.

[83] Bertrand Russell: Why Men Fight, p. 55.

[84] Herbert Spencer: Social Statics, pp. 296, 297.

[85] Loisy: The War and Religion, pp. 36, 37.

[86] Zimmermann: On National Pride, p. 94.

[87] Patrick Henry: Speech in Virginia Legislature, 1775.

[88] Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address. Nov. 19, 1863.

[89] Bacon: De Augmentis Scientarum, B. VI, Ch. III. (Spedding and Ellis). Quoted by Alexander F. Shand: The Foundations of Character, p. 7.

[90] Walter Lippmann: The Stakes of Diplomacy, pp. 74, 75.

[91] Samuel Adams: Protest of Boston Against Taxation. May 24, 1764.

[92] John Dewey: Progress, I. J. E., April, 1916, p. 321.

[93] Cf. Veblen: The Nature of Peace, pp. 166, 167.

[94] Chamberlain: Patriotism and The Moral Law, p. 6.

[95] L. P. Jacks: The Changing Mind of a Nation at War, pp. 78, 79. Jacks is talking of war-time conditions.

[96] George Washington: Letter to the Governors. June 18, 1783. Italics mine.

[97] McDougall: Social Psychology, p. 207.

[98] C. D. Burns: The Morality of Nations, p. 11.

[99] Bosanquet: Social and International Ideals, p. 3.

[100] Royce: The Philosophy of Loyalty, p. 40.

[101] Ibid., p. 41.

[102] Zimmermann: On National Pride, pp. 280, 281.

[103] William Cowper: The Task, II, 206.

[104] Sir Walter Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto Sixth.

[105] Cf. Mill: On Liberty; and Spencer: Social Statics.

[106] Hegel: The Philosophy of Right, pp. 330, 337.

[107] Cf. H. P. Judson: The Young American. Chap. I, pp. 9, 10.

[108] H. H. Powers: The Things Men Fight For, p. 283.

[109] Nitobe: Bushido, The Soul of Japan, p. 116.

[110] C. D. Broad: The Prevention of War. I. J. E., Jan., 1916, p. 243.

[111] For a clear statement of the diplomatic aims of the different nations in this present war see H. H. Powers: The Things Men Fight For.

[112] J. S. Mill: Letter dated Oct. 25, 1865. Elliott: Letters. Vol. II, p. 47.

[113] Chas. Sumner: The True Grandeur of Nations. Boston, July 4, 1845.

[114] Powers: The Things Men Fight For, p. 340.

[115] Green: Works. Vol. II. The Principles of Political Obligation, p. 338.

[116] See Anne C. E. Allinson: Virgil and the New Patriotism, Yale Review, Oct., 1917, p. 158.

[117] King: Washington or Greatness. In Patriotism and Other Papers, pp. 72, 73.

[118] L. S. Woolf: International Morality. I. J. E., Oct., 1915, p. 18.

[119] Loisy: The War and Religion, p. 21.

[120] Elroy Headley: Patriotic Essays, Introduction, p. XV.

[121] Mazzini: 1834. Quoted by Rose: Nationality in Modern History, p. 74.

[122] Longfellow: The Building of the Ship.

[123] Josiah Quincy, Jr. Speech at Second Centennial of Boston, Sept. 17, 1830.

[124] Wm. Watson: The True Patriotism. See The Poems of William Watson, New York and London, Macmillan Co., 1893, p. 76.

[125] Chamberlin: Patriotism and The Moral Law, pp. 24, 25.

[126] Chas. E. Hughes: Addresses Before the Empire State Society, S. A. R. Nov. 26, 1906.

[127] Bosanquet: Social and International Ideals, preface, pp. VI, VII.

[128] Chamberlin: Patriotism and The Moral Law, p. 14.

[129] John Grier Hibben: The Higher Patriotism, p. 18.

[130] J. M. Robertson: Patriotism and Empire, p. 202.

[131] International Reform Bureau: Patriotic Studies, 1888-1905.

[132] Thos. S. King: Patriotism and Other Papers, p. 49.

[133] Cf. E. A. Venturi: Joseph Mazzini, with two essays by Mazzini: Thoughts on Democracy and The Duties of Man.

[134] Royce: Loyalty, pp. 214, 215, 118.

[135] Royce: Duties of Americans in the Present War. In The Hope of the Great Community, pp. 3, 4. Italics mine.

[136] Graham Wallas: Human Nature in Politics, p. 100.