Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 114Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1927 - American literature |
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... present political apathy is due largely to a feeling of helplessness in the electorate . There is a growing cynicism as to our politics by reason of the seeming impossibility of correcting abuses . Political cor- ruption , of which ...
... present political apathy is due largely to a feeling of helplessness in the electorate . There is a growing cynicism as to our politics by reason of the seeming impossibility of correcting abuses . Political cor- ruption , of which ...
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... present a solid front , what- ever their domestic quarrels . Their internal dissensions undoubtedly in- crease the sense of insecurity among them , and may help to drive them to some stroke of folly , but will not alone be sufficient to ...
... present a solid front , what- ever their domestic quarrels . Their internal dissensions undoubtedly in- crease the sense of insecurity among them , and may help to drive them to some stroke of folly , but will not alone be sufficient to ...
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... present policy of Pius XI and his collaborators . For the mo- ment I must confine myself to an explanation of my assertion that there is no hope that the clergy will ever take the lead in an anti - Fascist rising . First of all , the ...
... present policy of Pius XI and his collaborators . For the mo- ment I must confine myself to an explanation of my assertion that there is no hope that the clergy will ever take the lead in an anti - Fascist rising . First of all , the ...
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... because he is well- meaning . He hopes that an oc- casion will present itself that will open the way for a return to the constitution . But no outside cir- cumstance can be of any use to a man who MUSSOLINI , THE POPE AND THE KING II.
... because he is well- meaning . He hopes that an oc- casion will present itself that will open the way for a return to the constitution . But no outside cir- cumstance can be of any use to a man who MUSSOLINI , THE POPE AND THE KING II.
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... present . Thus he falls from capitulation to capitulation , from complicity to complicity , from shame to shame , seeking ever a position from which to organize resistance , and never finding it . The first posi- tion from which to ...
... present . Thus he falls from capitulation to capitulation , from complicity to complicity , from shame to shame , seeking ever a position from which to organize resistance , and never finding it . The first posi- tion from which to ...
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Page 606 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
Page 606 - No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism...
Page 193 - But he answered and said unto him that told him, " Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister and mother.
Page 60 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man...
Page 541 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Page 232 - Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Page 537 - ... the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States of America.
Page 193 - For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage ; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Page 60 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in...
Page 271 - Be assured, my dear Sir, that I am incapable of receiving the slightest impression from- the effort now made to plant thorns on the pillow of age, worth and wisdom, and to sow tares 'between friends who have been such for near half a century.