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...commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency to banish evil influences instead of enabling men to overcome them by a sense of personal responsibility. And the present move is, besides, some what reminiscent of the retreat of the eighteenth century romanticists to their ivory tower...
Were a host of Turkish missionaries to descend upon the United States with Korans and praying rugs astounded citizens might possibly banish them to the Great American desert, as they did the Mormans. Looking at matters in this light the desire of "the" unspeakable Turk" to govern his own house politically and religiously, may seem less strange and the provisions of the Lausanne treaties made clear. For years foreign nations have been allowed extra-territorial privileges in the Porte; but the energetic young Turkish republic has docreed otherwise. As an explanation for the treaties which the Turks cleverly wrung from...
More than fitting it is, moreover, that Boston should be the first to condemn and banish the labours of its own sons in order that the homes of those sturdy descendants of the Puritans, -- the O'Rourkes, the Flahertys and the O'Houlihans,--may be kept inviolate even as that stern-eyed Roman, the elder Brutus, sentenced to death his own son for treachery to the state...
...building. But this is, after all, only what is to be expected in a Christmas number, and there are frequent flashes of decided Jevity, such as an unintentional likeness of Professor Rand performing on skiis, a clever whack at the Nominating Committee and a geographical joke or two which banish all dark thoughts of Christmas from our minds...
...this leaning toward paganism to such a marked degree that by 1630 the clergy was unequivocally opposed to it. With the production of Moliere's "L'Ecole des Femmes" in 1662, the long-maturing conflict between the clergy and the new literature broke forth. Louis XIV was compelled to banish this comedy for a time from the stage...