Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...economy and ethics but both are only parts of the greater philosophy needed. Political economy treats man as a gold seeking animal and simply observes the general laws that govern his conduct as such. It teaches that in the social world the great law of the survival of the fittest holds. Such teachings inspire the successful with complacency, but they drive the unfit into despair and revolt...
...litterateur. He advises no young man with literary ambitions to go on a daily journal unless the literature of a day's performance satisfies his ambition. The key note of the whole article is struck in the concluding sentences,- "Study, line distinction, the perfection of form, the fittest phrase, the labor limoe and the purgation from immaterialities of ornament or fac, and the putting of what we ought to say in the purest, simplest, and permanent form, - these are what our literature must have, and these are not qualities to be cultivated on the daily press. Of no pursuit...
...Tenebris," the only verse of the number,-for it is not a poem-is a sonnet on the lofty subject of mid-year examinations. A sonnet is not usually considered the fittest metrical form for persiflage of this character...