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...notable speech President Eliot spoke of freedom as the condition necessary to the progress of society, and pointed out its dangers and its opportunities in college life. A striking phenomenon of our day, he said, is the distrust of freedom that is manifesting itself in all walks of life. It is especially manifest in our educational institutions, for there is no moment when a young man is in a position of more freedom than when he leaves home and enters College. He can use or abuse that freedom, he can use it for good or bad purposes. It is there...
...struggle in France, and in nearly all continental Europe, between democracy and Christianity. In France, democracy came from the French Revolution, which had its origin in the philosophy of the eighteenth century. The disciples of the philosophers and the leaders of the French Revolution, or their successors, had a distrust for Christianity and considered the Christian churches, and the Catholic church in particular, as obstacles to the new ideas and a political invention to keep the people in servitude...
...find rest for your should." These words were spoken in a time when the kingdom of Judah, threatened with invasion from Babylon, was torn within itself by adverse theories, by doubt, by hesitation, by the impulse at one moment to follow any leader and at the next the cynical distrust of all. then the prophet came to the nation, halting as it were at crossroad, with his counsel to deliberate among the old ways and choose the one experience had pointed out as best...
...shows the weight of numbers to be on a higher grade of labor. This form of table is now used in the United States, in Federal and State census; and also in England and various continental countries. It does not eliminate the use of the "average" which many statisticians distrust; but the average becomes valuable when used over a term of years since it indicates the variations in the earning capacity of labor...
...take place for many years to come. The speaker then went on to show many specific evils that actualty exist, especially in the congested portions of our large cities and in mining camps as a direct result of the influx of these illiterate people. They have learned to distrust all government and to take no interest in political affairs. When they do vote they do so in a way debasing to American citizenship. They become fraudulently naturalized and give their votes to the party offering the highest bribe...