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A Personal Philosophy For War Time
Author: James L. Mursell

A PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY FOR WAR TIME BY THE AUTHOR OF STREAMLINE YOUR MIND A Personal Philosophy for War Time JAMES L. MURSELL Professor of Education Teachers College, Columbia University 1792 1942 J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1942, BY JAMES L. MURSELL PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Contents THE BASIC D... more »OCTRINE 1. Point of View 9 2. Courage 23 3. Fellowship 46 4. Our Future 70 5. Morale 87 THE CYCLE OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 1. Marriage in War Time 105 2. Parenthood in War Time 124 3. Friendship in War Time 142 THE CYCLE OF MATERIAL CONCERNS 1. Material Possessions in War Time 161 2. Our Careers and the War 177 3. Chances for Our Children 194 THE BASIC DOCTRINE Point of View Constructive Living in War Time Just the other day a letter came to me from Australia, which, as these words are written, is under threat of Japanese invasion. It was from an old couple, now in their eighties. Although never very rich, they had been in comfortable circumstances all their lives, with the amenities of a convenient home, and no material wor ries and they expected to spend what years were left to them in the same way. But when their letter was sent they had been evacuated from an area of danger to a small and crowded up-country town. There they were living cut oflE from their friends, in the cramped quarters of a single room. It must be pretty hard on them. Yet the letter breathes not a hint of complaint. On the con trary, it reads almost like a song of triumph. And its theme is learning. They have made a great discovery, which is not a bad performance at their age. And that discovery is themselves. They have, to their amaze-9 io A PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY FOR WAR TIME ment, found excellences in one another of which they had never been clearly aware in all their years together. And in each of them unsuspected strength had been revealed. They exclaim over how little material con veniences on which they had always set considerable store really seem to matter, and how clearly one comes to distinguish what is important from what is not when one is deprived of them. A commonplace tale in days like these, when far more dreadful and dramatic things are happening to millions of people No doubt But perhaps it comes home to us all the more forcefully for that very reason. These two are demonstrating in a way we can all understand that constructive living is possible in war time, and that it depends upon a definite and achievable point of view. As I read the letter I am reminded of a statement recently made by one of our best and most thoughtful radio commentators. He said that for ordinary men and women that is, for the vast majority of us, including my two old friends this war is sheer undiluted disaster with no good in it at all, and that anyone who claims the contrary is either a hypocrite or a fool. He is a person for whom I have the most-lively respect. His language is quite strong enough to make anybody hesitate about dis agreeing with him. As one surveys the stormy scene one cannot deny that he seems to have a case. Perhaps his attitude is the only honest one But . . . Well, he is in the prime of life, earning a thousand dollars a week as

ISBN-13: 9781406744118
ISBN-10: 1406744115
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 212
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Publisher: Aslan Press
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