Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Then arose the problem of combining this liberty of a common brotherhood and this order, depending on loyalty to God. For order alone is despotism, and liberty independence is anarchy, unless combined with order. There is no independence, all men are dependent on one another, and the closer the bond the better men they are. The aim of our Revolution was to combine the various elements that had settled America's shores, from the Puritans in Massachusetts to the Huguenots in Carolina. The Rebellion made the negro our brother...
...however, perfect brethren, for we have the problems of immigration, of labor, that the gap between rich and poor may not be widened. We are not bound together as brothren, until we can have a democracy industrially. Government, too, is still to progress to a power of common, fraternal control. We have passed from despotism to individualism and are on our way to fraternalism...
...description of the logging camp is very good. The life of the loggers is not attractive though it would be interesting to accompany Mr. Bolles and study it for a day or two. Some of the back-wood customs are decidedly novel, for example we are told that a common form of attention for the drivers to show their favorite horses is to feed them on chewing tobacco. Mr. John Fiske has an article in this number on Edward Augustus Freeman giving a sketch of his life and a brief study of his character. The most amusing article...
...paper, laid previously during the afternoon. The men started at a very fast pace and soon were separated into two squads. The three leaders kept well together the entire distance and the slower men struggled along about a quarter of a mile behind. The trail lay across the common to Concord avenue, to Walden street; thence across the fields to the junction of the Fitchburg railroad and the Watertown branch, where the runners were checked for the first time; up the Fitchburg tracks to the Glacia is, the place of the second check; from there in a south westerly direction...
...exact distance of the course will be five and a quarter miles. The start will be made at 3.45 o'clock sharp from in front of the gymnasium. From there the course will be across the Common to Concord Avenue to Walden Street; from there across the fields in a northerly direction to the junction of the Fitchburg Railroad with the Watertown branch where the runners will be checked; up the Fitchburg to the Glaeialis where the runners will be checked a second time; from there in a south westerly direction to Fresh Pond, around Fresh Pond drive to Cushing...