International Journal of Ethics, Volume 9International Journal of Ethics, 1899 - Electronic journals Includes section "Book reviews." |
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... kind of mis- take if the revulsion of feeling from the untenable position of our predecessors should now lead us to the opposite extreme ; if , after having wrapt ourselves up in the arrogant and juvenile conceit of perfection , we ...
... kind of mis- take if the revulsion of feeling from the untenable position of our predecessors should now lead us to the opposite extreme ; if , after having wrapt ourselves up in the arrogant and juvenile conceit of perfection , we ...
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... kind of fetishistic attitude towards the flag . It consists in the belief that any territory over which the national flag has at any time been raised thereby becomes taboo to other nations , and that we are bound to defend it as being ...
... kind of fetishistic attitude towards the flag . It consists in the belief that any territory over which the national flag has at any time been raised thereby becomes taboo to other nations , and that we are bound to defend it as being ...
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... kind of reductio ad absurdum . The wages of labor are de- pressed as far as possible for the sake of profit , or , if increased , are increased reluctantly in merely arithmetical progression , while at the same time the volume of ...
... kind of reductio ad absurdum . The wages of labor are de- pressed as far as possible for the sake of profit , or , if increased , are increased reluctantly in merely arithmetical progression , while at the same time the volume of ...
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... kind . The point is that there are two tendencies between which we must elect , the one to keep the wage - earner relatively poor and to unload the in- evitable surplus product on the peoples of distant countries , the other to make the ...
... kind . The point is that there are two tendencies between which we must elect , the one to keep the wage - earner relatively poor and to unload the in- evitable surplus product on the peoples of distant countries , the other to make the ...
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... have deserved well of human kind , and shall certainly have discharged in the truest and best way our cosmopolitan duty . FELIX ADLER . NEW YORK . A MORAL FROM ATHENIAN HISTORY . THERE are two problems 12 International Journal of Ethics .
... have deserved well of human kind , and shall certainly have discharged in the truest and best way our cosmopolitan duty . FELIX ADLER . NEW YORK . A MORAL FROM ATHENIAN HISTORY . THERE are two problems 12 International Journal of Ethics .
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Page 192 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Page 67 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair : and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Page 172 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.
Page 329 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Page 251 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 334 - Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; And others, when the bagpipe sings i...
Page 504 - Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 428 - Truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 67 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Page 428 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...