Word: descent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dealing with an obstacle; to struggle with it unsuccessfully, to crawl around it meanly, or to surmount it. The exercise of surmounting obstacles gives to a person a mental and physical exhilaration which is lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human being; the best training any young man can get is a habit of grappling with them...
...southern negro is not at present a fit subject for political privileges 1. He is unfit by reason of (at racial descent (b) lack of education (c) low medals. 2. If in power he would overthrow good laws and good order Forum...