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Antimilitarism See also Peace, Peacemaking. All Quiet on the Western Front unromanticized novel of WWI and its unsung heroes. [Ger. Lit.: All Quiet on the Western Front] called upon by duty to be a warrior, he refuses to join the fratricidal battle. [Hindu Lit.: The Bhagavad-Gita in Benét, 103] satirizes romantic view of war. [Br. Lit.: Arms and the Man] novel of lovers who flee from war’s horrors. [Am. Lit.: A Farewell to Arms]
known for service to peace. [Am. Hist.: EB, 7: 743–745] refuses to continue taking part in a war being wrongfully prolonged. [Br. Lit.: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer in Magill I, 579] fights her father’s involvement in munitions manufacture. [Br. Drama: Shaw Mayor Barbara in Magill III, 617] |
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| William James understood this when he admonished, "So long its the antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation. |
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Antimilitarists
