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The Psychology of Jingoism

knows enough of history to be aware that this is true of all wars in the past, it pretends that this war is an exception, and so each man feeds his passion from the common sewer, draining the poisonous vapours which degrade his intellect and inflame the latent lusts of animalism, and repeating idle patter about 'a just and necessary war for the furtherance of liberty and the protection of the British empire,' for which it has precisely the same sort of evidence as for the belief that Colman's is the best mustard, or Branson's extract of coffee is perfection.

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