Review of What is national honor?

Abstract

Reviews the book, What is national honor by Leo Perla (1918). This is a timely book dealing with the problem of "National Honor" psychologically. "National honor is the fundamental casus belli and the challenge of reconstruction." Our author upon these facts attempts to define the problem and to determine a method of disseminating its purport aright, for it is "a bold and dangerous question." It is hard to deal with this question because it is emotional in nature rather than rational and therefore defies analysis and rationality. Our author suggests by way of a technique, that the masses of all countries must get rid of the illusion that an economic sentiment is the motive of war. The economic sentiment in regard to war "is a gross libel on human nature." National honor is the generic term for all the ethical motives of the nations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)