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...write the story of a great civilization one must know where the electricity of existence has darted, one must know where the dynamic force of life has sparkled, and how, and why. All this eccentric and scattered heat produces the energy which makes a country flourish and grow strong. The huge engines of government are powered by insignificant fires, lighting a far-away gloom. In charting these fires history differs from documents, becomes imaginative literature...
Higher education, like lower religion, was once regarded as a field for commercial exploitation. Indeed, "diploma mills" still flourish, teaching all things from ethics to how-to-be-a-Prohibition-agent...
Said Il Duce, once a hod-carrier: "Madame, your poems have ravished my eyes, and, as I read them aloud, my ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell." Soon, with a flourish, Signor Mussolini presented the Countess Bethlen with an Italian translation of one of her poems autographed by himself. Flushed and a little flabbergasted, she withdrew. Premier Count Bethlen remained with Il Duce, and the two statesmen got down to signing their treaty...
...Under the present Ontario law (that the new bill may replace) the sale of 4.4% beer and whiskey on a doctor's prescription is permitted. Many bootleggers flourish. The new bill makes sure that liquor will only be sold through government stores by a provision for compulsory jail sentence without option of a fine for the unauthorized sale of as much as one bottle of liquor...
...ascension to heaven were better fitted to intervene with God, were closer to mere mortals than an awesome Lord. Then, gradually through the centuries, Mary-worship grew. In the catacombs, hunted and persecuted Christians scrawled pictures of the Virgin on the walls (150 A. D.,); it began truly to flourish in the Eastern Church about the 6th Century A. D.?? But it met with continued rebuke, as when the Collyridians were denounced by St. Epiphanius for making sacrificial offerings of cakes to Mary. He said: "Let Mary be held in honor. Let the Father, Son and Holy Ghost...