Introduction 1: Introduction

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Source	America and the New Epoch
Year	1916
Section ID	america-and-new-epoch-introduction-01
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INTRODUCTION The following does not represent my senti- ments, but gives the conclusions drawn from the historical facts which of necessity follow from the preceding causes, regardless whether we like them or dislike them. Sentiment has nothing to do with, can exert no influence on, the phenomena of nature, on the workings of nature's laws, whether it be the cosmic laws which let winter follow summer, regardless whether we wish it or not, or the economic laws which plunged the world into war with England and Germany as pro- tagonists, irrespective whether we are pa- cificists or militarists, pro-German or pro- English. In judging on the meaning of historical facts, on events which we see occurring before our eyes, we must entirely set aside our senti- ments and our wishes, and, like in any physical

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INTRODUCTION The following does not represent my senti- ments, but gives the conclusions drawn from the historical facts which of necessity follow from the preceding causes, regardless whether we like them or dislike them. Sentiment has nothing to do with, can exert no influence on, the phenomena of nature, on the workings of nature's laws, whether it be the cosmic laws which let winter follow summer, regardless whether we wi ...

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