The Craftsman, Volume 8

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Gustav Stickley
United Crafts, 1905 - Architecture, Domestic
An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.

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Page 486 - ... now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 485 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 481 - Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Page 176 - We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for .ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Page 482 - What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent.
Page 485 - seem to be pursuing,' as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt. "I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.
Page 482 - The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Page 485 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Page 176 - ... a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider.
Page 484 - ... to be just; it shall not deter me. If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by...

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