Yet, strange to say – though it is undeniable that the universal armaments and destructive wars which are ruining the peoples result from that one feeling — all my arguments showing the backwardness, anachronism, and harmfulness of patriotism have been met, and are still met, either by silence, by intentional misinterpretation, or by a strange unvarying reply to the effect that only bad patriotism (Jingoism, or Chauvinism)...is evil, but that good real patriotism is a very elevated moral feeling, to condemn which is not only irrational but wicked.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Yet, strange to say – though it is undeniable that the universal armaments and destructive wars which are ruining the peoples result from that one feeling — all my arguments showing the backwardness, anachronism, and harmfulness of patriotism have been met, and are still met, either by silence, by intentional misinterpretation, or by a strange unvarying reply to the effect that only bad patriotism (Jingoism, or Chauvinism)...is evil, but that good real patriotism is a very elevated moral feeling, to condemn which is not only irrational but wicked." in the context of "Leo Tolstoy in: Essays and Letters , 1903, p. 238." to mean that wisdom is timeless.