Download or read book Patriotism and Government (Classic Reprint) written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Patriotism and Government Not adults only, but also children, pure, wise children, rejoice, according to their nationality, when they hear that the number killed and lacerated by lyddite or other shells is not seven hundred but one thousand Englishmen or Boers. And parents (i know of such cases) encourage their children in such brutality. But that is not all. Every increase in the army of one nation (and every nation being in danger seeks to increase its army for patriotic reasons) obliges its neighbours to increase their army, also from patriot ism, and this evokes a fresh increase by the first nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.