Bostonia, Volumes 19-21Boston University, 1918 |
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Page 74 - Americanism ; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War ; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses ; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy...
Page 10 - Do not teach me out of Leibnitz and Schelling, and I shall find it all out myself." He would still preach to us the gospel of the will, or, in William James's phrase, " the will to believe." "When you renounce your early visions, then dies the man in you." Be a unit. In this whirring social machinery of the twentieth century, in this over-organized, sentimentalized, and easily stampeded age, possess your own soul. By and by the snowstorm of illusions will cease, and you will be left alone with the...
Page 107 - So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be, In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
Page 74 - War ; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation: to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses, to make Right the master of Might; to promote peace and good will on earth ; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy ; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.
Page 107 - Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown To admire the crumbly castles and the statues of the kings, — But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things. So it's home again, and home again, America for me!
Page 102 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 9 - and after sunset, night and her stars." In uttering this gospel of Nature he would use new terms, for his mind would have been fascinated by the new discoveries. But while the illustrations would be novel, he would still assert the universality of Law. He would still say : "Books are good, but the living soul is better." "Do not teach me out of Leibnitz and Schelling, and I shall find it all out myself.
Page 17 - Brownson's schooling, and are able to give $30 a year to the church and contribute to the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association.
Page 74 - For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 144 - A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one ; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.