Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...organization, its magnificent hierarchy to Rome; but all that was permanently vital and formative came from Greece. When Christianity was still young, the strong literary spirit of the Greeks had a decided effect on it. Thus their elegant rhetoric soon put an end to the spontaneous prophesying which was common in the first days of the church, and made way for the preaching of modern times. It used to be thought that the Christian church was an entirely new phenomenon; but this is far from true. It is only unique in its idea of Christ. In fact, irreverant though...
...description of the general methods of whaling. An article worthy of the attention of everyone is "A Voice of Russia" by Pierre Botkine, the secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington. In a few words Mr. Botkine shows how foolish and groundless the inimical feeling towards Russia, so common here, is. He explains that, as nations, Russia and the United States always have been and always should be on the best of terms. He then points out some of the erroneous impressions of the Russian government that are largely due to Mr. Kennan's writings. The poetry of the number...
...make it,-unselfish and genuine and thoroughly manly. And there is one point of especial appropriateness. If he stood for anything, it was for unity of the positive kind: the sinking of minor differences in hard work for the fundamental aims which belong to all the denominations in common. He would be very glad, one cannot but feel, to have his name given to a building where Congregationalists and Unitarians and Episcopalians will be cooperating with each other...
...public must be benefited by a check on the express companies, the offspring of the railway, which enjoy all privileges of common carriers, with none of their restrictions. Their present system is a burden. The enormous loss of life could also be brought to the minimum by legislation compelling the adoption of the automatic coupler, proper danger signals, and other new and necessary improvements. Two thirds of our railways are trying to secure this legislation. That the Inter-State Commerce Act is not adequate for many important questions is the declaration of the commerce commission. That further national legislation would...
...doomed. The people have looked to this act as their great hope and will not witness its destruction without a protest. A refusal now to correct or at least to endeavor to remedy the existing wrongs so keenly felt, will carry us far towards the socialistic extreme. The common law and the statutes of the several states have failed to preserve to the people their rights against the railway corporations. The Interstate Commerce Act has been found inadequate at important points. Strengthening and stringent amendments are now demanded not only by the people but by the wiser railroad managers themselves...