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... reform and improvement in every sphere of human activity , chiefly in public education , politics and religion . Says Percy Douglas ( North American Review , June , 1889 ) : " Destruction and Revision are the two most potent weapons of ...
... reform and improvement in every sphere of human activity , chiefly in public education , politics and religion . Says Percy Douglas ( North American Review , June , 1889 ) : " Destruction and Revision are the two most potent weapons of ...
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... reforms of the common schools , that what Martin Luther was for those in Church . His principles were first applied to the elementary bran- ches of the common school , viz . , language , form and number . In geometry the old method of ...
... reforms of the common schools , that what Martin Luther was for those in Church . His principles were first applied to the elementary bran- ches of the common school , viz . , language , form and number . In geometry the old method of ...
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... reforms which happen in the social , political and religious life . ( Platform , 1. ) This Union is a nursery of all ideas which shoot from a natural , reason- able view of the Universe ( 1. ) Moreover the Bund sees in the way as , in ...
... reforms which happen in the social , political and religious life . ( Platform , 1. ) This Union is a nursery of all ideas which shoot from a natural , reason- able view of the Universe ( 1. ) Moreover the Bund sees in the way as , in ...
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... reforms in social , political and religious sphere , and in particu- lar , for equal rights of all men ( Platf . I. ) Therefore , they combat every attempt to limit liberty of conscience , or to oppress the colored man ; they fight the ...
... reforms in social , political and religious sphere , and in particu- lar , for equal rights of all men ( Platf . I. ) Therefore , they combat every attempt to limit liberty of conscience , or to oppress the colored man ; they fight the ...
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... phenomena , and to improve in general the health of the people , there are different expedients , e . g . reforms of diet , of dwellings , 1 destruction of intemperance and luxury , education of a moral ON PUBLIC EDUCATION . 75.
... phenomena , and to improve in general the health of the people , there are different expedients , e . g . reforms of diet , of dwellings , 1 destruction of intemperance and luxury , education of a moral ON PUBLIC EDUCATION . 75.
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Página 130 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
Página 130 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...
Página 131 - But the gladiators' bloody Circus stands, A noble wreck in ruinous perfection, While Caesar's chambers, and the Augustan halls, Grovel on earth in indistinct decay. And thou didst shine, thou rolling moon, upon All this, and cast a wide and tender light, Which...
Página 131 - t were anew, the gaps of centuries; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er [ 40 ] s -. » I «B "8 C 8 ^ With silent worship of the great of old, — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 129 - Of the embrace of angels with a sex More beautiful than they, which did draw down The erring spirits who can ne'er return...
Página 289 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Página 95 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 171 - ... the principle of sexual selection, with its tendency to preserve and transmit the better types of the race, and let the inferior types drop out, has unhindered operation. The necessities of poverty, the need of having a home, no longer tempt women to accept as the fathers of their children men whom they neither can love nor respect. Wealth and rank no longer divert attention from personal qualities. Gold no longer ' gilds the straitened forehead of the fool.
Página 145 - Supposing the entire habitable globe to be so enclosed, it follows that if the landowners have a valid right to its surface all who are not landowners have no right at all to its surface. Hence such can exist on the earth by sufferance only. They are all trespassers. Save by the permission of the lords of the soil, they can have no room for the soles of their feet. Nay, should the others think fit to deny them a resting-place, these landless men might equitably be expelled from the earth altogether.
Página 146 - Separate ownership would merge into the joint-stock ownership of the public. Instead of being in the possession of individuals, the country would be held by the great corporate body— society. Instead of leasing his acres from an isolated proprietor, the farmer would lease them from the nation. Instead of paying his rent to the agent of Sir John or his Grace, he would pay it to an agent or deputy agent of the community.