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...second source of discord will be Secretary Mellon's proposal to decrease income surtaxes to a maximum of 25%. This proposal will be stoutly opposed by the Republican insurgents and by the greater part of the Democrats. The defection of the insurgents will leave the regular Republicans without power to pass this part of the proposal in either house. A certain number of the conservative Democrats from the Eastern states will, however, join with the regular Republicans. In this number are Senators Bruce (Md.), Glass (Va.), Edwards (N. J.), Walsh (Mass.). But there must be from four...
...Edsall says: "When reason is applied to Religion, there is naturally discord. It is as if one tried to play a violin with a saw." Now there is considerably more than discord. Such treatment inevitably results in the ruin of the violin: Whereas the saw is quite unharmed...
...whole so-called "Conflict between Religion and Science". There is no such conflict; there never can be, for Science and Religion have no inter-relation. Man's scientific instrument is his reason; his religious instrument is his mystical power. When reason is applied to Religion, there is naturally discord. It is as if one tried to play a violin with a saw. But that is enough of generalizations on this point; now for particulars. "How," you say, "can a man who agrees with scientific thinking agree also with the idea of the Virgin Birth, which Science and experience show...
...quarrel over the succession to the Russian Throne was settled in a family council of the Romanovs held in Paris. According to Grand Duke Alexander, the meetings of the family were called to end once and for all the gossip about discord and distrust existing between members of the House of Romanov...
Modern statesmen, too, who compare so unfavorably with those magnificent of a former day, Disraeli and Gladstone, are, for the most part, incapacitated by the Victorianism of their training for the efficient management of the modern world. The crop of discord, war, hate, and international rivalry which the ill-timed pacifism of Gladstone and the brilliant but wholly unmoral opportunism of Disraeli sowed has come to fruition, but the great Victorians failed to leave a generation capable of dealing with this dread harvest. Instead, they left a group of statesmen trained to govern a Victorian World, men stable financially, economically...