And courtesy of poet Lawrence Binyon (who I always get confused with a French cyclist!):pic.twitter.com/DLwqshfIUg
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@PhilosophyExp But isn't that sort thing gets young men heading to death in trenches? It's bunkum, isn't it? Glory to die for country etc
@johnthejack Yes, but ithat's precisely its interest. I'm not endorsing the sentiment. I (largely) find it repugnant.
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@PhilosophyExp Ah, OK. Misunderstood. It's well crafted, but, as you say, largely repugnant. -
@johnthejack It also correctly describes the tenor of the times at the start of the First World War. -
@PhilosophyExp Yes, I think there really was such a mood, and a genuinely popular one. Too often overlooked in 'donkeys led by lions' line -
@johnthejack Bertie Russell talks in his autobiog about how difficult it was to take an anti-war line at that time. Even among his peers. -
@PhilosophyExp Yes, though, his peers were rather elevated. What often overlooked is popular mood for a fight.
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