Excerpt from The Authority of Might and Right
In the struggles of life with individuals and with nations the query often comes, whether might is right, or right is might. In the raging conflicts when all available means of power to gain victory for the principles which individuals or nations endeavor to vindicate or to establish, often the right seems shattered by the forces of evil, and the people have inclined to the scepticism of the subtle sarcasm in the phrase: "God is on the side of the strongest battalions!" On close scrutiny, however, it appears that might and right are not terms to be opposed; that this query really reads, whether the wrong is right, or the right is wrong. Might in itself being innocent of moral quality, the assertion "might is right" would make success the a posteriori criterion in regard to the moral right or wrong of our given action or principle. This unmoral pragmatism would say whatever has succeeded is so far forth right. Whoever, or whatever fails of success is thereby declared to be wrong. It knows of no struggling for a lost cause, knows of no defeated principles of right; it recognizes only success.
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