 | Robert Watson Gordon - 1992 - 342 páginas
...lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.43 This soldierly blindness involves an agnostic's abdication before a Final Judgment — the "supposed... | |
 | James H. Toner - 1992 - 201 páginas
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 | Thomas B. Stephens - 2016 - 184 páginas
...words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior, himself a soldier and a very distinguished lawyer, "which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."2 It is the state of mind of the Ming censor Zuo Guangdou who, unable to prevail upon his emperor,... | |
 | Fred R. Shapiro - 1993 - 610 páginas
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 | E. Anthony Rotundo - 1993 - 408 páginas
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 | George M. Fredrickson - 1965 - 300 páginas
...of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."9 For Holmes, strenuousness and courage were not means to an end, but ends in themselves; personal... | |
 | G. Edward White - 1995 - 649 páginas
...carelessness for life," a "senseless passion," a "faith . . . which leads a soldier to throw his life away in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." The references to campaigns and tactics reminded Holmes of his own anarchic wartime meanderings, and... | |
 | Nina Silber - 1997 - 276 páginas
...well-known articulation of the new patriotic ideology. "The faith is true and adorable," Holmes explained, "which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands." Despite the apparent emptiness of such patriotic rhetoric, many were drawn to this Holmesian discourse... | |
 | T. J. Jackson Lears - 1994 - 397 páginas
...of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience...notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." 64 Holmes's persistent popularity among "realists" and "pragmatists" in the twentieth century is a... | |
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But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in... 
