The Making of America, Volume 1Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Hardy, Charles Higgins Making of America, 1906 - Inventors |
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Page 65
... existence . America is a psychic mael- strom that has sucked in and swallowed up hosts of aliens . Five millions of Germans , for instance , have joined us , and yet how little has our institutional development been deflected by them ...
... existence . America is a psychic mael- strom that has sucked in and swallowed up hosts of aliens . Five millions of Germans , for instance , have joined us , and yet how little has our institutional development been deflected by them ...
Page 67
... eagerly snapped up by the numerous progeny of the foreigner . The prudent , self respecting natives first cease to expand , and then , as the struggle for existence grows sterner and the outlook THE CAUSES OF RACE SUPERIORITY 67.
... eagerly snapped up by the numerous progeny of the foreigner . The prudent , self respecting natives first cease to expand , and then , as the struggle for existence grows sterner and the outlook THE CAUSES OF RACE SUPERIORITY 67.
Page 68
... existence grows sterner and the outlook for their children darker , they fail even to recruit their own num- bers . It is probably the visible narrowing of the circle of opportunity through the infiltration of Irish and French Cana ...
... existence grows sterner and the outlook for their children darker , they fail even to recruit their own num- bers . It is probably the visible narrowing of the circle of opportunity through the infiltration of Irish and French Cana ...
Page 72
... existence are made more favorable by better wages and shorter hours , it is seen how necessary it is that this people's university should be established in every large community , with doors standing invitingly open , so that in this ...
... existence are made more favorable by better wages and shorter hours , it is seen how necessary it is that this people's university should be established in every large community , with doors standing invitingly open , so that in this ...
Page 78
... existence flatly denied . First and foremost , I name this proposition and hold it to be fundamental to our American educational system : While all forms of education may be under government control , yet government control of education ...
... existence flatly denied . First and foremost , I name this proposition and hold it to be fundamental to our American educational system : While all forms of education may be under government control , yet government control of education ...
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Page 194 - Europe from the east to the west, from the north to the south...
Page 305 - Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
Page 72 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of policy, by which property and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 73 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Page 374 - That excellent and by all Physitians approved China Drink, called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay, alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head, a cophee-house in Sweetings Rents, by the Royal Exchange, London.
Page 20 - State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, and from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws ; but it adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another.
Page 299 - While you labour for any thing below your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet:— Unless above himself he can .Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !
Page 82 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 298 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...