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Untimely Papers

A work by Randolph Bourne

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Religion has largely handed its demand for conformity over to the State, Intellectuals who backed the war sided with the least democratic forces in American life, A wholly rational intellectual class would have pressed for peace rather than war …

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    Randolph Bourne

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Key facts

Edition korrents quotes
essays of 1917-1918, published 19192
Claims on korrents
211

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Religion has largely handed its demand for conformity over to the State (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Intellectuals who backed the war sided with the least democratic forces in American life (opens korrents.com)1

  3. A wholly rational intellectual class would have pressed for peace rather than war (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Wars, America's included, follow a monstrous failure of diplomacy (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Being intellectual does not necessarily mean suspending judgment; the intellect craves certainty (opens korrents.com)1

  6. An endless war for democracy would crush a nation's most precious thing, its youth's idealism (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. Untimely Papers (essays of 1917-1918, published 1919) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Untimely Papers (essays of 1917-1918, published 1919) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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