Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next reading was from the second soras of the Medina period. In it is described the religion of Abraham, which the prophet professed to restore. He argues that the religion of Abraham antedates all others, and is therefore entitled to the preference. In the same suramany of the civil and religious laws are defined. Those in regard to charity are really praiseworthy...
...discovery of gold in California gave a new impetus to this idea; for the Union Pacific railroad had not then been built, and the journey overland was long and dangerous, while the voyage around Cape Horn was fraught with hardships. But on the breaking out of the civil war all thought of an Isthmian canal, so far as the United States were concerned had to be abandoned...
...this action of the treasury established a deplorable precedent, which those in favor of paper money in later years did not fail to make use of. Up to 1861, all attempts to make paper money a legal tender were indignantly rejected by congress. But the breaking out of the Civil War made such action both just and necessary...
Professor Lyon's lecture yesterday afternoon was based on a collection of tablets, sixty-five in number, presented by Mr. Stephen Salisbury to the Harvard Divinity School. Preliminary to the exhibition of the tablets the lecturer spoke of the general class of writing to which they belong, the civil, social, and translated several published documents from the reigns of Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonida. These translations related to gifts to the temples, loans, sale of slaves and real estate, marriage, partnership and legal decisions. Such information makes it possible for us to have a very clear view of the social life...
...Clarke, L. S. opening for the negative, said that the present immigration laws, if enforced will suffice to keep paupers, invalids, lunatics and contract laborers out of this country. To shut out immigration by further legislation would be against the principles of our nation. The civil evils caused by immigration are merely the "measles and the mumps', of our infant country, and must not be taken into consideration if we remember that immigrants have proven the back bone of our country, and that they have made our country what it is. Let immigrants come to America if they want...