The Archive · 1928

What Are We Fighting About?

Opposite wax seated a business man, an American returned student. He asked, What is all the fighting about, anyhow? Fifteen been fighting and what by fighting can only gai When you want to teach a child to walk, you don't give him Confucius to read, You put him on the floor and tell him to walk. If he falls, he eries. Then one day, he doesn't fall, Then one day. he can walk sturdily. Then he grows strong. Then his muscles grow supple and soon if anyone questions his right to live, lhe retorts with a blow, A man can only survive when he can strike a Blow. Otherwise. any passer-by can destroy him. This is not philoso phy, It is practical life, It is fogled. We were used by the Communists and we were used by the Russians, That is because we are

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