Business AdministrationDe Bower-Chapline Company, 1909 - Commerce |
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... higher realms of life . The imprisonment is so complete that he rarely thinks about the chances of escaping . Centuries of experience have bred in him the understanding that he is by nature a peasant , and that , save in rare instances ...
... higher realms of life . The imprisonment is so complete that he rarely thinks about the chances of escaping . Centuries of experience have bred in him the understanding that he is by nature a peasant , and that , save in rare instances ...
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... higher than that of any other race . But the Huguenots were a select class of people , manufacturers and merchants , perhaps the most intelligent and enterprising of Frenchmen in the seven- teenth century . Furthermore , the direct ...
... higher than that of any other race . But the Huguenots were a select class of people , manufacturers and merchants , perhaps the most intelligent and enterprising of Frenchmen in the seven- teenth century . Furthermore , the direct ...
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... higher . The lower is that of the chief or the boss who marshals his ignorant followers through fear or spoils . The higher is that of self govern- ment where those who join together do so through their own intelligence and mutual ...
... higher . The lower is that of the chief or the boss who marshals his ignorant followers through fear or spoils . The higher is that of self govern- ment where those who join together do so through their own intelligence and mutual ...
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... higher social morality . From the health re- ports of all our large southern cities we learn that a consider- able amount of our infant mortality is due to inanition , in- fantile debility , and infantile marasmus . Now what is the case ...
... higher social morality . From the health re- ports of all our large southern cities we learn that a consider- able amount of our infant mortality is due to inanition , in- fantile debility , and infantile marasmus . Now what is the case ...
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... higher rent than could be obtained from larger cultivators . Reduced to a diet of potatoes by an economic system imposed by an alien race , the Irish people are one of the many examples which we find throughout our studies of a subject ...
... higher rent than could be obtained from larger cultivators . Reduced to a diet of potatoes by an economic system imposed by an alien race , the Irish people are one of the many examples which we find throughout our studies of a subject ...
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Page 311 - 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 127 - Here's to pure mathematics, and may it never be of any use to anybody ! " But the ambitious young man or woman in Boston who is earning a living, and who is willing to struggle for the increased power and pleasure which come from technical knowledge of one's own calling, has not exhausted his opportunities in the night schools maintained by the city and by private thoughtfulness. There has grown up...
Page 71 - 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 12 - 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 305 - 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 304 - 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...
Page 304 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties kuow, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; These constitute a state ; And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Site empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 119 - What, then, is education, and how are we to educate ? For men are not agreed as to what the young should learn either with a view to perfect training or to the best life." Furthermore, into most human lives there is thrust the problem of earning a living. So fierce is human struggle at this age that the earning of a livelihood, if the living is to be a comfortable one, requires the possession on the part of the individual of expertness in some one direction.
Page 69 - We supposed it had always been understood in this state that education, not merely in the rudiments, but in an enlarged sense, was regarded as an important practical advantage to be supplied at their option to rich and poor alike, and not as something pertaining merely to culture and accomplishment to be brought as such within the reach of those whose accumulated wealth enabled them to pay for it.
Page 69 - We content ourselves with the statement that neither in our state policy, in our constitution, nor in our laws, do we find the primary school districts restricted in the branches of knowledge which their officers may cause to be taught, or the grade of instruction that may be given, if their voters consent in regular form to bear the expense and raise the taxes for the purpose.