Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throng. But even with this New York is not satisfied. Lest a single crime escape unnoticed criminals are now to be arrested in the crowded districts within the new "dead lines" merely on the strength of their past records. Appearance within the proscribed bounds is itself sufficient proof of evil intent...
...social system, based on an aristocracy of learning. There are four so called 'honorable' classes, namely: Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants. Notice that in this system there is no place for the soldier. He is classed with the barber, the actor, the butcher, and the hangman as a necessary evil. Is it not possible that the world might get the germ of an idea from this system which would materially advance international relations? It may leave China without much strength as strength is now reckoned, but I am confident that in the end she will emerge and having found herself...
...question is whether the principle of free speech applies to the law passed by the General Court of Massachusetts in 1921. Milton admits that there are certain things essentially evil which "no law can permit if it intends not to unlaw itself". Our Act says that the Commissioner of Public Safety "shall approve such films or parts thereof as are not obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, or such as tend to debase or corrupt morals or incite to crime." Can any law permit the things herein prohibited without unlawing itself? In an appeal from an Ohio case it was contended that...
...than that the delicate mechanism of the child's mind should be defiled." But, if the exhibition is once given, the harm is done. Legal procedure is costly of time and money, and in practical experience, procedure against immoral shows is found simply to advertise and spread the evil. Therefore experience has established the principle that these things must be regulated before exhibition...
...been the man with five talents who had neglected to use them to the fullest extent, and had therefore been condemned, for to whom much has been committed of him will be required the more. Duties he upon a man according to his power for good and evil. Those who can do only little must do that little, and great is their merit if they do it faithfully. Those whose influence is wider must use it to the full for good, and great is their desert if they do so, but great also is their deficiency if they neglect their...