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...While the nations involved [in the World Court] cannot yet be said to have made a final determination, and from most of them no answer has been received, many of them have indicated that they are unwilling to concur in the conditions adopted by the resolution of the Senate. While no final decision can be made by our Government until final answers are received, the situation has been sufficiently developed so that I feel warranted in saying that I do not intend to ask the Senate to modify its position. I do not believe the Senate would take favorable action...
...other by a student Readers will, of course, value one above the other if they find them conflicting. Indeed, no great insight is required to discern what subjects the one or the other will prove the more authoritative. But it is likely to be discovered that teacher and student concur and supplement more often than they conflict...
...principle, however, does not depend upon agreement. It depends upon the theory that whether beliefs concur supplement, or conflict, they are all of value if put fairly forward: that belief disdained and flouted becomes antagonistic and destructive: that belief listened to tends to become considered and responsible...
...result of the referendum will have no effect on the state laws. It is simply a straw vote officialized. The Lower House of the Legislature also adopted a resolution asking Congress to summon a Constitutional Convention* to repeal the 18th Amendment. The Upper House was expected to concur...
...true that I have been adjudged guilty of heresy and it is quite possible that you concur in the judgment and intend, at the coming meeting of the House of Bishops, to vote for my expulsion from the Christian ministry. But such considerations, it seems to me, are quite irrelevant. Religion, we are both agreed, is deeper than intellectual belief, and the known divergence in pur points of view, in case you were to invite me to speak in the cathedral, would emphasize the truth...