Subject/Objective Reality/Illusion

[David Morris]

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/04dec/0412james.htm

This Banquet was given in Boston on the closing day of the World's Peace 
Congress, October 7, 1904

by William James

"This is the constitution of human nature which we have to work against. The 
plain truth is that people want war. They want it anyhow; for itself; and 
apart from each and every possible consequence. It is the final bouquet of 
life's fireworks. The born soldiers want it hot and actual. The 
non-combatants want it in the background, and always as an open possibility, 
to feed imagination on and keep excitement going. Its clerical and 
historical defenders fool themselves when they talk as they do about it. 
What moves them is not the blessings it has won for us, but a vague 
religious exaltation. War, they feel, is human nature at its uttermost. We 
are here to do our uttermost. It is a sacrament. Society would rot, they 
think, without the mystical blood-payment."

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>Judy Panetta wrote:
> > Subjective is me me me Like [...] William James

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