Word: affirmatives
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dorr '97 opened the rebuttal for Harvard. His speech was a summary of the affirmative position. He said in part: We affirm that the United States should adopt the gold standard. This is our definite position and to it we would narrow the question. Bimetallism would cause a break in the par of exchange and would upset prices. It would not prevent the fall of prices. Prices fall because the proportional increase in production is greater than the increase of money. Under a double standard, money will increase proportionally as under a single standard. At best bimettalism would result...
...they serve merely to hide their true meaning. Thus the relation of man to the infinite and unknown of life must be understood. Man, living in the known world, can tell nothing of the infinite, but upon coming to the blank wall of the unknown, without being able to affirm anything, he feels that there is something behind it, which, however, he can define only by negatives...