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...volumes comprise the reading matter of a course. Although each excerpt yields some knowledge of a topic, and the accumulation of them imparts the main facts of the course, the student does not grow wise from perusal of these smudges. The crisp pages, many times outnumbering their much-read brethren, cramp his comprehension within the confines of the smudges...
...Milwaukee indeed resolves itself into an ironic absurdity a very ordinary bourgeoise jest. The wet Senators, unfortunately for them, will come out of the small end of the drinking horn--very dry, for it is far from the realms of possibility that the Prohibition elders will allow their erring brethren the excuse for any such delightful legalistic temporizing. Prohibition has come, prohibition shall stay; and the joke is on the American Tantalus...
...deed is almost done. I congratulate you on the Democratic side of this Chamber; I commiserate my brethren on the Republican side. We have acted here on the Republican side upon the theory that? If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly...
...rich Methodists, to ooze into the Protestant Episcopal Church, which is fashionable everywhere in the Republic save in rural New England." In such brazen tone he went his way. "The Baptists say they have 8,000,000 members in the United States. This includes 3,000,000 colored brethren, who are recognized as having souls but are not allowed to come to white churches." Repeatedly he jabbed at foot-washing, that Baptist gesture of humility. He made phrases: ". . . the rank and file keep on whooping for Genesis. . . . The colored Baptists are all hot fundamentalists. . . . Bible and Lynching Belt [Mississippi...
...becoming more and more obvious that Western people are forcing their Eastern brethren to drop their ways and methods, but in the victory which they seem to be winning they are creating situations which will make for a more terrible war. If every time an incident, great or small, arises, the powerful nations resort to violence, there can be no peace. Nicaragua, Haiti, Amritsar, Rubr, Corfu, Egypt all involved a resort, to force upon the part of the great and powerful nations against the unarmed and helpless. In all of these instances the aggressor nation was strong enough and powerful...