Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Renunciation leads again to the daylight of wisdom by whose radiance a new insight, a new joy; a new tenderness, shine forth to gladden the pilgrim's heart." Then, and then alone, when man has learned to control his inner life, can he stand forth, free of his fear, a fortified Frankenstein...
...Unless man's capability to handle the enormous civilization he has created is increased the organization is likely to annihilate him." Thus Raymond Fosdick in his address before the Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia expresses a fear which all intelligent moderns must eventually feel. No one who appreciates this monster which man in the role of a Frankenstein has created can remain apathetic. So from the agile minds of certain European intellectuals as well as from "old school" Americans have come their expressions of fear. But while these have beaten the air of a careless world with...
...Here is a real reason for opposition to evolution; men are not driven from it by fear of discovering that their bodies are structally like those of apes and monkeys; it does not bother us to discover that we are mammals. * * * It does not bother us to find the implication that the law of progress has apparently been opposed to the love of Christ, but here are the facts...
...just as this development induced the speculative crowd to fear an advance in Federal Reserve rates, news from London announced a cut in the Bank of England rate from 4%% to 4%. The rates of the Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England are made cooperatively in order that the British rate may always be slightly higher and thus avoid heavy gold exports to this country. New York Reserve rate is now 3%%, and a rise to 4% would consequently threaten the British gold supply and the sterling gold standard...
...peered in to see fire strutting and pecking there like a great red cock while 200 canaries fluttered on the shelves, dogs pawed their wire stalls, and in the window a Brazil ian parrot cried out over and over in the terrible voice of a man unnerved by fear. Firemen broke down the door, took out the dogs, some alive, some dead; the 200 gay canaries, all dead; the parrot, dead...