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Having a better time with the apportioned reading today. And the tome itself seems more comprehensible.

“Wars never end where they begin.”

Moving THROUGH this tome. It’s very dry, abstruse & filled with jargon that is general at first glance and deep upon the second glance.

prescient, illuminating, revealing, instructive, piercing, cognizant, sympathetic, pitying, alert,

War is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face
We first endure, then pity, them embrace. -Pope

I really do not comprehend this! What does he mean by extension? It’s used so many times.

Who is this man! Men displayed love for their Maker through nationalism; now for them to display it through globalism & world union. The reduction of armaments—the deescalation of war. And his empathy for Italy, Germany & Japan is praiseworthy. He doesn’t blame them.

Whew, really heady

Coming to find the beginning of philosophy

This guy was a visionary! He aimed for a world government and has stipulated it’s created that is sound and all embracing. I never knew of this man, wonder of his legacy, and I’m ready to learn more.

Got a little dry this section

“By casting away scholarly claims to authority, they have set themselves a drift on uncertain seas of public opinion. The voyage can be uncomfortable at times. It is difficult when opinions are divided or are changing rapidly, and it is just as difficult when, as happens quite frequently, people do not really know what they want to hear.” (70)

“the 1950s texts are in Cyclopedia’s rather than history books. They’re fast indexes contain references to everything under the sun, but there is no connection between one thing and another. Events stand of isolated below headings of black tape, like islands in some archipelago where no one has to get invented the canoe.”

“ unfortunately, their sense of structure did not measure up to their style.” (50)
“ The word controversial is as deeply feared by textbook publishers as it is coveted by trade book publishers.“ (46)