...so far as it has any ethical element, therefore, and is not measured in terms of the good old rule that he shall take who has the power and he shall keep who can, presupposes this feeling of common interest. Society assures to each of its members in the right of...

...charters, or licenses, from 1627 onwards, but they were vague in character, and the prevalent rule was " he shall take who has the power, and he shall keep who can." Not only were England and France frequently at war, but even when peace prevailed between the two countries,...

...Bolsheviks, socialists, and other reformers, that men were created equal, in the sense of " The ancient law, the simple plan, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can." It was no more than the logical application of the sentiments uttered by every astute agitator from...

...of the more competent, means always the rule of the "law of Claw and Fang." "The good old-fashioned plan, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can." And thus we come back to the philosophv of the "Golden Rule." APHORISM No. XIV Compulsion (force) as...

...right," that "the vanquished must pay," that "God is on the side of the heaviest battalions. " Theirs is the good old rule, the simple plan, That he shall take who has the power And he shall keep who can. CHAPTER II SOME TRUTHS ABOUT THE TURKS WE have witnessed one of the most astonishing and dramatic episodes...

...St. Petersburg did not let that concern them. They had long subscribed to . . . the good old rale, the simple plan, That he shall take who has the power And he shall keep who can. A few months after the outbreak of the World War, when the conflagration was rapidly spreading toward...

...careful of the words you use, Crewe ; they might fly back and strike you." And Randolph quoted, " 'And he shall take who has the power, and he shall keep who can.' Whose money started the paper ? " " No one denies that ; but where did the idea come from ? " " From...

...clausum on which Spanish and Portuguese expansion had been based. They were, in part, founded on " The good old rule, the simple plan That he shall take who has the power And he shall keep who can." Yet they differed from the earlier European conflicts in at least one important particular. They were...

...to detail the causes for this, for they are well known to all, but on both sides the old idea of ' he shall take who has the power and he shall keep who can ' is still dominant, and the relations between the protagonists in this industrial war ore as bad as...

...the jungle still prevails and might makes right. The principles of national conduct are reduced to "the good old rule, the simple plan, that he shall...take who has the power and he shall keep who can." The rule is illustrated by the German comment upon the crushing of Belgium : "The fate that Belgium...