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...professional problems (wrote Modern Urology, 1918), Dr. Richard C. has deployed into many fields. He is an indefatigable worker. With equal keenness he handles his classes, toys in his laboratory with his microscope, writes in his study his esteemed professional treatises or hurries off his popular volumes of dicta,? addresses professional or lay bodies, earns an excellent living...
...more esteemed citizens of the city, has played guardian to the people, established their moral code. And that code, being the expression of the active and more bigoted members, has been both a rule of ignorance and a law of pettiness. When any urban group submits to the ethical dicta of a prejudiced and demi-intelligent minority, that group has lost whatever claim to progressive decency it ever possessed...
...Harry's new opus. He has been careless and a mite dull. His people are a rich Australian who marries the Governor's daughter-and their many relations. It is the kind of book in which plot matters not a whit and conversation, behavior and obiter dicta are everything. The first is stilted, the second unreal-having breakfasted, these upper-class Brit-ishers "wiped their lips and put down their napkins and blew their noses"-and the third consists largely in sudden aimless excursions into geology, botany, anthropology, astronomy...
...world with analyses of Rivera, Mussolini and Pangalos, Mustapha Komal Pasha, magic enchanter who affixed the brim to the fez and drew the vell from the fact of Turkish womankind, goes unheralded and unsung, as if social traditions were not a thousand times more difficult to upset than political dicta...
...application of ordeal. He would delight to see the noble folk at sundown, beating their suspects into unconsciousness before the bar of justice. This is not the ordeal, however. The ordeal is to recover consciousness. And nothing could be more systematically fitted to the American critic's haphazard dicta than the impartially unjust manner in which the natives pronounce judgment. He who comes to his senses during the night is innocent; he who awakes at dawn is guilty...