Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other complications in the doctrine of international values. The difficulty of comparing quantities of labor or productive power is lessened by Mangoldt's conception of a commodity produced both by the home and the foreign country. New views serve to confirm the old arguments in favor of free trade. Abstract theory admits indeed the possibility that a country may benefit itself economically by a manipulation of tariffs; but the methods indicated are so refined and involved as to strengthen the general presumption of leaving trade relations unimpered with when there is no reasoned expectation that they will be bettered...
...using it to save the people of New York from great evils. He has before him a law which is unenforceable, unrepealable and bad, and his only course in regard to it is to use his discretion to promote the welfare of the people instead of observing abstract theories...
...abstract of the Republican platform with extracts from the more important planks, and that part of Roosevelt's letter of acceptance which deals with the question of imperialism are printed as a declaration of the principles of the Republican party. Among the other articles may be mentioned, an account of the Republican club meeting Wednesday night and a summary of the requirements for student voters in Cambridge...
...good and the beautiful as abstract qualities are in most ways almost inseparable. It has been said that moral philosophers are really no more than connoisseurs of true beauty. True beauty cannot be sinful, for a distinctive quality of beauty and holiness alike is unity, and the distinctive quality of sinfulness is incoherence...
...true that Dudley has lost some of its Woodstock appeal. The murals which covered the house in the co-op's early years have been painted over, and the nude woman that used to grace the bathroom wall has been replaced with an abstract design...