Word: creation
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...Between 1200 and 1800 people obtained wealth primarily from two sources: first, by offering protection to the weak for returns in money, and secondly, after the states were organized, by collecting taxes and appropriating a large portion for themselves. These old fortunes made by displacement of wealth instead of creation, were disastrous to the populations, though endured better than are the legitimate fortunes of the present. At present one-third of the population possess nothing; and of the two-thirds holding possessions, 99.35 per cent. hold 55 per cent. of the total wealth of France, while 1-2 per cent...
...commandments are the fundamental laws of all creation and not arbitrary rules for man, and the breach of a commandment shows its harm by the destruction it causes. Animals, by over-covetousness often die of starvation; by being false, are killed...
...service of the year will be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev. G. Hodges D.D., dean of the Episcopal Theological School, will conduct the service and the following musical program will be rendered: "Great is the Lord," Burdett; "In Native Worth" from Haydn's "Creation"; "Lo, the day of rest declineth," Bulton. H. L. Murphy '08 will be the soloist...
...sustained effort should be made to purify party life in our cities by the creation of independent organizations with good leaders--men whom the people trust. For the history of our country shows that political parties can be purified from the outside only. But when we are rid of the corruption we will be confronted with a condition of things in which the patriotism of every citizen will be tested. Each man must do his part or the strength of the independent organization will weaken and fall back into...
...lead them from the east to the west, from the old world to the new. They became greater navigators than the Phoenicians or the Scandinavians, and Homer's Odessey in comparison with St. Brandon's voyages seems but a commonplace trip. No race has been so endowed in the creation of fiction as the common peasants of Brittany and Ireland, who excel the ancient poets in weaving imaginative tales, such as the Arthurean cycle...