 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...punishments to them, when practised among and upon their own people respectively, it was deemed no offense, but even meritorious, to rob and murder and enslave...small degree. They render more pleasant, and more stron g, and more durable the bond of social and political union among us. Again, if, as Pope declares,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...AND EXPANSION. 160 (September 30, 1859, Speech at Milwaukee, Wis.— Complete Works, Vol. I, p. 576.) To correct the evils, great and small, which spring...individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. (February 15, 1848, Letter to WH Herndon — Complete Works, Vol. I, p. 111.) Allow the President to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 148 pages
...merits to them, when practiced among and upon their own people respectively, it was deemed no offense, but even meritorious, to rob and murder and enslave...individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, at Milwaukee. Sept. 30, 1859. T^VlSCOURAGE... | |
 | Burke McCarty - 1910 - 24 pages
...such radical utterances of the great emancipator, who said on this occasion in a speech : To correct evils great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from a positive enmity among strangers, as nations or individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization."... | |
 | John Wesley Hill - 1920 - 460 pages
...Agricultural Society at Milwaukee, in 1859: "To correct the evils, great and small, which spring up from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among...is one of the highest functions of civilization." 1 Brockett, Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln, p. 701. "The President of the United States has a multiplicity... | |
 | U.S. National Commission for UNESCO - 1947 - 774 pages
...of all which abstract principle can do, likes him whom he does know much better than him Mr Marshall whom he does not know. To correct the evils, great...is one of the highest functions of civilization." UNESCO's Prime Purpose UNF.SCO is dedicated to this "highest function of civilization," the function... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - International agencies - 1954 - 530 pages
...likes him whom he does know much better than him whom he does not know. "To correct the evils, great or small, which spring from want of sympathy and from...is one of the highest functions of civilization." It is to this "highest function of civilization" that UNESCO is dedicated. It has been said that the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1954 - 668 pages
...whom he does not ow. "To correct the evils, great or small, which spring from want of sympathy and Dm positive enmity, among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the ?hest functions of civilization." It is to this "highest function of civilization" at UNESCO is dedicated.... | |
 | Lawrence H. Fuchs - History - 1990 - 652 pages
...earth down to very recent times, the words "stranger," "enemy," were quite or almost synonymous ... To correct the evils, great and small, which spring...individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Contents Acknowledgments / xiii Preface / xv Introduction: The American Kaleidoscope... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...and Lincoln complied, yet there were political overtones to much of what he said. September 30, 1859 Members of the Agricultural Society and Citizens of...of civilization. To this end our agricultural fairs contrib297 ute in no small degree. They make more pleasant, and more strong, and more durable, the... | |
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... meritorious, to rob, and murder, and enslave strangers, whether as nations or as individuals. Even yet, this has not totally disappeared. The man of the highest moral cultivation, in spite of all which abstract principle can do, likes him whom he... 
