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...true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation. . . . What other great, purely human .institution, devised in the era of the stagecoach and the candle, has so marvelously grown and survived into this epoch of the steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...
...this book Professor Jones brings out the close connection between the religious movements of the Commonwealth Period in England and the political issues which were then being settled. He points out what an important epoch it was for the maturing of the religious life of England, and equally so for its bold experiments in popular self-government; these were first tried in the democratic religious sects and then carried out into wider areas of the State. Using this period as an example, the writer shows that democracy will never be a true success without a deep moral and religious background...
...urge for action, when they must get them hence. And there are also times when the sedentary life, with pipe, Tom Collinses, an arm chair and all the other appurtenances of leisure seem the only thing, indeed when they are the only thing. On the threshold of such an epoch the Vagabond has arrived, Dunhill in hand. He is sick of wastin' leather on gritty pavin' stones. He is also sick of college. Above all he is sick of grinding out his daily drivel for the unmitigated pleasure of Freshmen while they wait for their questionable eggs at the Union...
...peopled by men and women of flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater than his kindness to a misused epoch, for he blazed a trail along which other men might follow...
...Paris is an organized club of active Americans residing in Paris, meeting daily for luncheon. Purpose of the T. N. T.: Good fellowship, no boy orators (speeches tabooed), no head table (sanely bohemian). Our epoch days are our explosions, which take place now and then...