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

[141] H. H. Powers: The Things Men Fight For.

[142] Cf. statement of procedure in the preface.

[143] Sophie Bryant: Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IX, p. 678:2.

[144] Of course, one can care about the fate of countries other than his own and be interested in institutions of another order, the church, for instance, but when he does these things, he does them in his character as something other than a patriot. No person is merely a patriot. In so far as he is a patriot his interest is absorbed in his country.

[145] Royce: The World and the Individual, Vol. I, p. 292.

[146] Veblen: The Nature of Peace. Cf. Chap. IV, Peace Without Honour.

[147] Bosanquet: The Principle of Individuality and Value, p. 68.

[148] Ibid., margin of p. 68.

[149] E. B. Talbot: Individuality and Freedom. Philosophical Review, November, 1909, p. 600.

[150] Aristotle: Politics. Book II, Chap. 2, p. 28. Jowett’s translation.