Word: compellation
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Mystics and idealists compel admiration by the lives they lead. The salt of the earth are those who preserve for us a belief in the existence of a future life. On questions of this kind the only enduring belief is through faith. In the presence of so many unsolved mysteries one must not be dogmatic and deny the existence of a future state, but must recognize as a rock of safety some belief in the world to come. But this is all. Whether we are to step from light to light or from light to darkness we do not know...
Much of the disinclination to politics is due, President Hadley said, to unwillingness not to accept office, but to accept these conditions. And many men in the reaction against these conditions, are led to the other extreme. They believe that good men should hold the balance of power and compel the political parties to compete for their support. This independent vote, however, is not often large enough to carry an election, and is almost never able to carry two in succession. Even rarer is the chance of an independent candidate to gain an election independent of all party...
...known for some time, but right seems to be on the side of the Boers. At least the sight of a nation leaving all and going in a body to the front to fight for their homes ought to inspire the admiration of a republic like America and compel it to suspend its judgment...