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

[24] J. M. Robertson: Patriotism and Empire, p. 138.

[25] Goethe: Faust, Part II, Act 2. The translation here used is quoted by F. M. Stawell: Patriotism and Humanity. I. J. E., April, 1915, p. 299.

[26] McDougall: Social Psychology, p. 140.

[27] For a book that emphasizes the emulative impulse in its account of the behavior of nations see Thorstein Veblen: The Nature of Peace. Cf. pp. 31 ff.

[28] William James has contended that the center of the problem of peace and war is that there is an impulse of pugnacity. Cf. The Moral Equivalent of War and Remarks at the Peace Banquet in Memories and Studies.

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.