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...When our friends pass from our sight and we lament, that lamentation is needless and causeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Weird Cult | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...causeless optimism aside, the plan is not a bit more promising than its myriad forerunners. Too numerous are names like Ford's Peace Ship and the Hague Conferences and the Neutrality Agreements. These, except the first, had at least a practical excuse for existence. There was hope for more humane conditions in war; there was interest in preserving the independence of the small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANNED GOOD WILL | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

...appeals of an infuriated group of cheer-leaders waver feebly when the last white line is ninety yards away. There is no entity less abstract in its origins and manifestations than college spirit, and why it should be symbolized and paraded as a Platonic soul-affair, or a causeless hatred in perpetuam, is a mystery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINNER TAKE ALL | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

...becoming is a consequence", said Dr. Driesch. "Casuality is the conception of a becoming as a effect. If we say there is no cause, then life is causeless, which hypothesis we must reject. As there is a cause, and it is not mechanical, it must be non-mechanical or intellect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AUTONOMY OF LIFE" FOUND TO BE INVOLVED | 10/11/1923 | See Source »

...Coulson, on the negative, criticised severely the ground taken by the preceding speaker. Mr. Gladstone, said he, has denounced this Coercion Bill as the most causeless and insulting bill ever introduced into Parliament. Instead of being the home of criminals, as so many say it is, Ireland is a country exceptionally free from crime, and statistics prove it. Under coercion, in 1881, the number of crimes committed in Ireland was more than four times greater than those committed in 1886 when there was no coercion. Relatively to the population, England and Scotland are far more criminal countries than Ireland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate. | 5/11/1887 | See Source »

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