Word: acte
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Paine's "Symphonic Poem" will be given at the concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra this evening, when the composer will act as conductor...
...Royce first summed up the results of the previous lecture and illustrated them more fully, closing these illustrations by a statement of what is suggested as the ultimate moral principle, which is in the form of a maxim: Act as thou wouldst be minded to act if all the consequences of thy act, for all conscious beings, in so far as such consequences can be foreseen, were to be realized for thy self at the next moment. That is to say, that morality is defined as a perfectly impersonal view of all conscious life and as action based upon such...
Then in answer to this question, first, all those views were excluded from consideration which lay stress on rewards and punishments as sanctions of the moral law. What is done for reward is, in so far, not a positively moral act. The real world offers support to true morality only in so far as it can show us that we are not alone when we try to act morally. If something in nature tends to realize genuine morality, then this something may show us a religious aspect of nature. For religion seeks in nature for something that gives support...
...act was passed for the protection or wool and woollen goods. This act introduces the highest and most unreasonable of all tariff duties. Two years later an act was passed over President Johnson's veto, putting a high tariff on copper. In 1872 Mr. John Hayes proposed a reduction of ten percent. on all duties, a scheme which so pleased Congress that it was passed only to be changed, however, in 1875, when the tariff rate went back to what it had been prior...
...changes made in the tariff rates by the act passed last week are for the most part indicative of a more liberal policy. The duties are lowered on many articles by this bill, and many errors and irregularities which had crept into the duty list have been rectified. On the whole, the bill is the first point of the gradual change of sentiment which has been gaining ground throughout the country...