Word: evils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Many writers on trusts think that the worst evil connected with them is their introduction of corruption into politics, but it is questionable whether trusts do this any more than corporations such as gas companies and railroads. The real evil lies in the legislative system, certain members of which introduce bills injurious alike to the trusts and the public, simply for the purpose of being bought...
...social evils are of greater consequence. The democratic system of government needs individual self-reliance, and the competitive system in business develops this. Trusts bring about the opposite result, setting aside competition, and saving the weak by sheltering them in combinations. This makes little difference in the industrial world, for in the first case many of these weaker establishments would fail, and their creditors would thus suffer. Those who favor trusts say that by them inefficient men are kept from trying to do business independently, thus preventing a great economic evil, and that capable men are given good positions, good...
...Finally, he returns to Norway, unsatisfied, and restless, to seek the love of his youth. Here the consciousness of his ill-spent life is strong upon him, and his state of mind is portrayed in some wonderful passages, in which Peer Gynt is claimed by Buttonmoulder, the symbolization of evil, but is redeemed in the end by the constancy of woman's love...
...with motive for the deed." In speaking of the New Testament, John Ruskin has said what may be well applied to the death of the hero of the play, that the most soul-stirring picture drawn by the Savior is the terrible condemnation of the rejected,--not of the evil doers, but of those who have failed to do good...
...lessened in number; if pains were taken to make them known in every part of the country; and examinations were held in every state of the Union; it is at any rate possible that the competition would be more keen and fruitful than at present. Examination is an evil but a necessary one; and it seems to me that in this connexion, as in others, the University may find itself led to make more use of them, and to treat them more seriously...