Why Men Fight · Bertrand Russell
FOOTNOTES
A soldier relative said that the deceased’s life had been made “a perfect misery” by women who taunted him and called him a coward because he did not join the Army. A few days ago two women in Maida Vale insulted him “something shocking.” The Coroner, speaking with some warmth, said the conduct of such women was abominable. It was scandalous that women who knew nothing of individual circumstances should be allowed to go about making unbearable the lives of men who had tried to do their duty. It was a pity they had nothing better to do. Here was a man who perhaps had been driven to death by a pack of silly women. He hoped something would soon be done to put a stop to such conduct (_Daily News_, July 26, 1915). [7] By England in South Africa, America in the Philippines, France in Morocco, Italy in Tripoli, Germany in Southwest Africa, Russia in Persia and Manchuria, Japan in Manchuria. [8] This was written in 1915. [9] This would be as true under a syndicalist régime as it is at present. [10] These changes, which are to be desired on their own account, not only in order to prevent war, will be discussed in later lectures. [11] What is said on this subject in the present lecture is only preliminary, since the subsequent lectures all deal with some aspect of the same problem. [12] Except by that small minority who are capable of artistic enjoyment. [13] Booth’s “Life and Labour of the People,” vol. iii. [14] As regards the education of young children, Madame Montessori’s methods seem to me full of wisdom.
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