Chapter 1: Eras in the World's History
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Section titled “Source Metadata”| Field | Value |
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| Source | America and the New Epoch |
| Year | 1916 |
| Section ID | america-and-new-epoch-chapter-02 |
| Location | lines 234-626 |
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| Word Count | 2224 |
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Opening Source Excerpt
Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”I ERAS IN THE WORLD's HISTORY WHILE this is being written the world's war is entering its third year, and no entl to the catastrophe is yet in sight. . All attempts to explain the cause of the dis- aster have failed: the assassination of the Austrian Crown Prince, the violation of Bel- gium's neutrality. Slavish expansion, Prussian militarism, British greed alike do not explain. The assassination of the Austrian Crown Prince may have justified a punitive expedition against Servia, but not that Russia, England, and France come to the assistance of the assassins. The violation of the neutrality of Belgium I AMERICA AND THE NEW EPOCH does not appear acceptable to an American as explanation of England's entrance into the war. It would imply that the American's moral sense is so inferior to thatSource-Located Theme Snippets
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Section titled “Field language”... historical epochs which have clianged the organization of human society, an epoch Hke that which, begin- ning in the August night of 1789, with the declaration of the rights of man, liberie, egal- ite, f rater 7iiie, and ending on the battle-field of Waterloo, changed the world from feudalism to industrial capitalism, or that earlier epoch of the migration of the German tribes, which buried the classic civilization of ancient times under the ruins of the Roman Empire and es- tablishe ...Waves / transmission lines
Section titled “Waves / transmission lines”... t to war for a moral issue, while beyond mere academic condemnation not a single voice was raised in America for war in defense of Belgium; nay, such obligation was expressly disclaimed. The battle lines between Slav and German have been wavering to and fro in the East for over fifteen centuries without kindling a world's war, and while the old fight for the ground, be- tween Slav and German, would flare up with renewed intensity as incident of a world's war, it cannot be th ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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