This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...there was only decay of imagination." Deeply are the roots of patriotism and religion intertwined. "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem," was the cry of one who was both temple-singer and ardent nationalist. The great national anthems usually blend both points of view. We begin by singing "My country, 'tis of thee," ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...there was only decay of imagination." Deeply are the roots of patriotism and religion intertwined. "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem," was the cry of one who was both temple-singer and ardent nationalist. The great national anthems usually blend both points of view. We begin by singing "My country, 'tis of thee," and we end by singing: "Our fathers' God, to thee." In such apostrophe there is a joyous emergence from the local and the individual, and a projection of the little self into a mighty and invisible whole. That release from selfishness, that outflow of the single personality into the nation, the kingdom, into the life of humanity and the life of God, is the essence of both patriotism and religion. Inexplicable it is to the formulas of Bentham and Buckle, but easily understood by the man who has once yielded his soul to its sway. Schiller entered into the daily experience of millions in church and state when he counseled: "Be thou a whole, or if thou canst not bear that part, Be part of a whole and serve it with a faithful heart." We now see the immense distance which separates the pacifism of the rationalists from the pacifism of Christianity. Both modes of thought seek after world-peace. The rationalist and the Christian together oppose war as one of the greatest earthly evils. They are both pledged to its ultimate abolition. But the one opposes war as irrational, as a mistaken move in the game; the other opposes it as cruel and hideous, an outrage on humanity, an affront to God. The one would suppress war by suppressing the passionate loyalties and devotions out of which war springs; the other by deepening and broadening those devotions and enthusiasms until they include all humanity and flow around not a single local government, but a...
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