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Socialist Upton Sinclair might be a better novelist if he kept anti-capitalist propaganda out of his books; but probably in that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist...
Shirley Wynne, New York Health Commissioner,--"As a public health worker I am a strong believer in temperance, but our present method of achieving temperance by force of law is a failure."
"No real believer in Democracy questions the sureness of public judgment?if the public is given the truth. . . . We can sometimes speed up [truth's] production before the ill-informed awakes to his opportunities. Facts are bad for his digestion. . . . But the truth is hard to discover. It must be...
The excessively ugly, good-humored and unambitious Peregrine ("Pithecanthropus") Smith, on a fortnight's pedestrian holiday from his police duties, meets up with an aggressive young Scottish engineer. They set out to cross Dukesmoor together in a thick fog. From the window of the moorland house a face watches...
Next day Mr. Day was asked 'for his resignation. He tendered it willingly, left to accept a post at Leland Stanford, his alma mater, no believer in the Ark or Jonah's Whale.