International Journal of Ethics, Volume 9International Journal of Ethics, 1899 - Electronic journals Includes section "Book reviews." |
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... practical question . The flag is a symbol or a sign ; its sacredness consists wholly in what it signifies . The American flag in particular is supposed to signify freedom and equality , the government of all by all and for the good of ...
... practical question . The flag is a symbol or a sign ; its sacredness consists wholly in what it signifies . The American flag in particular is supposed to signify freedom and equality , the government of all by all and for the good of ...
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... practical problem of politics , —namely , the sifting out of the relatively best men as leaders , which we lack . We have set ourselves a new and far more difficult task than theirs ; we wish to dispense entirely in the body politic ...
... practical problem of politics , —namely , the sifting out of the relatively best men as leaders , which we lack . We have set ourselves a new and far more difficult task than theirs ; we wish to dispense entirely in the body politic ...
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... practical psychol- ogists , will make it their business to study the peculiar genius of the people among whom they live , and will endeavor not so much to implant foreign ideas and ideals as to bring to the light the highest and best ...
... practical psychol- ogists , will make it their business to study the peculiar genius of the people among whom they live , and will endeavor not so much to implant foreign ideas and ideals as to bring to the light the highest and best ...
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... practical as fast as possible , why then it certainly seems to me to deserve the contempt and neglect which it now receives from so many sources . But what is important for my present purpose is to recog- nize that such a conception of ...
... practical as fast as possible , why then it certainly seems to me to deserve the contempt and neglect which it now receives from so many sources . But what is important for my present purpose is to recog- nize that such a conception of ...
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... practical life . It has happened to me more than once to differ from a friend very strongly upon some philosophical question , and then to get at the whole root of the difficulty by climbing a mountain with him , trying to help him in ...
... practical life . It has happened to me more than once to differ from a friend very strongly upon some philosophical question , and then to get at the whole root of the difficulty by climbing a mountain with him , trying to help him in ...
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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...