Word: actually
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...though Cambridge was made the better by his actual presence and is the more famed by his memory, the diocese of Longfellow is bounded only by the limits of the language in which he wrote. For the spirit which inspired his poetry was that of the sweetness and peace and good will for which the whole world longs. Walt Whitman, with a genius of a different order from that of our poet, said well concerning him: 'I should have to think if I were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America...
...unworthy reason, and it shows either a weakness or worse than a weakness in the man's character. Above all, you college men, remember that if your education, the pleasant lives you lead, make you too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world, if you became overcultivated, so over-refined that you cannot do the hard work of practical polities, then you had better never have been educated...
...worthy as critics and advisers. The educated man who seeks to console himself for his own lack of the robust qualities to bring success in American politics by moaning over the degeneracy of the times, instead of trying to better them, by railing at the men who do the actual work of political life, instead of trying himself to do the work, is a poor creature, and, so far as his feeble powers avail, is a damage and not a help to the community. You may come far short of this disagreeable standard and still be a rather useless member...
...obligation to show yourselves better able to do certain things than your fellows who have not had your advantages. If it has served merely to make you believe that you are to be excused from effort in after life, that you are to be excused from contact with the actual world of men and events, then it will prove a curse and not a blessing...
During the first half of the nineteenth century, socialism was Utopian, and therefore ineffective, but in the middle of the century Karl Marx gave it what was supposed to be a foundation in actual science. The formula of Marx is that all wealth is due to labor, and therefore all wealth is due to the laborers. His scheme was to have the product of an hour of labor exchange for the product of an hour's labor in any other employment...