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...dramatist; he was also a stony socialist of the romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make up "The Ring", for which as in his other operas he himself wrote the librette, he sets forth, for example, his idea of an idyllic state of society not dissimilar to that of Shelley's "Promethens Unbound". In "Tristan" he brings his reading of Schoppenhauer to its logical and extreme conclusion. All in all, the figure of Wagner is gigantic not only in music, where he is supreme, but also in literature where he looms large in the field...
...appointment of Shaughnessy who is the leading Rugby football coach in Canada is especially significant in view of the forecasted development of American football into a more open style of game not dissimilar to Rugby on account of the recent ruling making incomplete lateral and backward passes dead...
...Mexicans have remarked that, considering the totally different circumstances of the Mexican and U. S. Revolutions, it is remarkable that the resulting legal structures are not more dissimilar than they...
...religious constitutes one of the chief causes of the Reformation and all subsequent schisms. The questionnaire is presumably non-dimensional and as such has little interest in sects. Nevertheless the distinctions between modern churches are sometimes of such very great breadth that one cannot subscribe to the tenets of dissimilar faiths, deeply as one may sympathize with them in their ambition to reach God in their own way. Advertising religion is at best an effort to further spiritual progress by materialistic mediums--and this latest attempt is unfortunately symbolical of the entire movement which, in spite of its being headed...
...Bausman's argument has very little to do with the debt question, which is even more an economic subject than a legal one, but very much to do with fear and dislike of England. When an author can confidently anticipate the verdict of history in conferring upon four such dissimilar figrues as Hearst, Reed, Borah, and Coolidge, the rank of "statesmen," one may well pause to consider the weight of his judgment upon nations...