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Proponents of the Institute of Foreign Affairs at the University of Chicago have been at great pains to exalt its merits at the expense of the Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics...
...however, an ancient phenomenon that the human mind may reason from a false premise to a sound conclusion. This Mr. Russell did when at the end of a speech to the Teaching Union in Manhattan he besought teachers to teach first the love of truth, and not to exalt the merits of any nation or any group at the expense of truth. He denounced the history books now being given to American children which conscientiously describe this country as being altogether without sin, in the beginning, now, and forevermore. Amen...
...hope that God will be pleased to exalt and glorify the virtue of one of the most beloved successors of Saint Peter...
...dwelt more on the rights of the Jews to rule Palestine than on their having no right to rule in England. But I suppose this is temperamentally impossible for Mr. Chesterton. For to speak ill of Lord Reading's services in England is, to put it mildly, paradoxical; to exalt the work of Sir Herbert Samuel in Palestine is simply to state a truth...
...very delightful one, because of this close contact. The boys are there leaning upon you morally, intellectually, socially, in a way that they do not among the older boys, and especially as they do not in our colleges and universities. I do not mean to say that I exalt that dependence, that I feel that there is a great advantage in keeping boys dependent. I realize that the work of the teachers is to make boys independent of them as rapidly as possible, to withdraw themselves just as rapidly as possible from their lives, that they may stand alone...