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. 1915 Excerpt: ... his class; with whom was no shadow of turning before the remorseless necessities of CONQUEST. Now conquest is an intelligible, intellectual motive, and the great generals as Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander, may have had political reasons, wedded to grandiose dreams of universal dominion, with, perhaps not distantly ...
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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. 1915 Excerpt: ... his class; with whom was no shadow of turning before the remorseless necessities of CONQUEST. Now conquest is an intelligible, intellectual motive, and the great generals as Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander, may have had political reasons, wedded to grandiose dreams of universal dominion, with, perhaps not distantly related to it, of universal happiness. The lower tribal cultures do not apprehend conquest in that light--at least not usually--unless the Iroquois League suggests it among the American indians. But the tribal nature of conquest appears in the cruelties, the enslavings, in the plunderings. These last were conspicuous with Napoleon. War as an art means science, and a successful war means fame, and this last impulse overpoweringly mingles its dolorous designs with the tribal propulsion toward war, for its own sake, or for what it brings in gain. But there is something more mysterious, more recondite, implied in the tribe, which we have hinted at, but not dwelt upon specifically. It is the "Bigotry of Blood" the "Intense Racial or Caste Pride, and irreducible self-consciousness." There are the obvious commonplace phenomena of persistent imposition of the conquerors upon the conquered, with arrogance and superb scorn, but in Robespierre of the Revolution we seem suddenly to confront that racial intensity of feeling, concentrated in an individual with a theory. It really seems so. The analysis is difficult and obscure, perhaps, but we believe that sort of zealot is also tribal, that his temperament developes under tribal antecedents, conditions, and guarantees. We have treated of it less exiguously than we can here, under Religious Bigotry and the Inquisition. It is alluded to now as relative to that almost inexplicable character Robe...
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Add this copy of Europe's Handicap-Tribe and Class to cart. $26.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1915 by Thomas Benton.