Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pointed out in his previous lecture the conflict between European and Asiatic customs and tendencies was largely responsible for breaking up the unity of the Mediterranean empire. A fanatical crisis in Bagdad at the end of the eighth century, M. Millet said, and a thorough reform of the Christian church in the eleventh century, coupled with the desire to restore the old Roman empire, was directly responsible for the Crusades. These served to subdue the Mohammedans--the "yellow peril" of the Middle Ages. With the decline of the Crusading spirit Europe came into contact with the luxury of the East...
...public, which, after all, is stronger than any of its parts, will not long permit two factions to stop industry. Compulsion, which must come from the government, must finally be used to bring the two parties to terms. The conflict, therefore, immediately becomes a political affair in which dishonest means are often used to win the favor of the officers of the law. To conciliate these two great industrial forces of labor and capital, organized as monopolies with a perfection never before reached, is a momentous problem which will well serve as the test of a democracy...
...truth of the situation is this. The track management, having known as early as last May that I had secured permission, and again last fall, when I submitted a schedule of dates and times, simply neglected to arrange the Thursday squads for a different practice hour. Now that the conflict occurs, the track management and those individuals concerned ought to be willing to adjust themselves to a situation which was brought about through no fault of the basketball management. Having removed all objections I arranged my schedule in good faith. Changes at this late date would constitute a breach...
...consider what the two parties to this conflict can do to modify or cure its evil tendencies and develop its good ones, and what the community, or general public, can do to bring about a lasting treaty of peace. To this end let us apply to all objects, methods, and policies of industrial strife one test--the test of making for the public happiness...
...time of the Restoration in France, M. Leroy-Beaulieu said, the church was in conflict with the aspirations of the new century. Lamennais and his disciples sought to end this strife and reconcile the church with that form of society which issued from the French Revolution. To this end they founded in 1830 a newspaper called "The Future." with the motto "God and liberty, the Pope and the people," and asked the Vatican to favor democracy...