Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cannot meet our obligations to Porto Rico in any other way. We must enact duties which shall secure prosperity to the islanders. Our own customs laws will not accomplish this. They were devised to protect a manufacturing country that presents an almost complete contrast to Porto Rico, a purely agricultural island. In the parts of our country where the economic conditions approach those of Porto Rico, in the southern plantation states, the opposition to our tariff has been increasing for seventy-five years...
...bringing it under the organic laws? The states do not possess this right today, and clearly they must have given it to the federal government with the treaty and war-making power. The affirmative contention is to make the United States a cripple among nations. If the United States cannot immediately dispose of territory which has come as a result of war, then, however unwise the course may be, it must make that territory a part of itself. It assuredly was not the intention of the Constitution's makers thus to render the United States unable to exercise the ordinary...
...good and the beautiful as abstract qualities are in most ways almost inseparable. It has been said that moral philosophers are really no more than connoisseurs of true beauty. True beauty cannot be sinful, for a distinctive quality of beauty and holiness alike is unity, and the distinctive quality of sinfulness is incoherence...
...although goodness and beauty are in many ways so closely allied, there is between them a distinction. Beauty as shown in a work of art is complete, isolated, finite. Goodness, on the contrary, cannot be conceived except in "growing" terms, and as never quite capable of reaching the goal of its ambition. This is the distinction between goodness and beauty, and it is in this very finite perfection of a work of art that the defect of beauty lies...
...Oriental Society cannot express too warmly its approval of this enterprise, believing that the existence of such a school would give a new impulse to Biblical and Oriental scholarship...