Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rest but seeks to gain it in many ways. America is looked upon as a place where Sunday is kept sacred. At the fair there will be 25,000 or more men engaged in work and it will be a great injustice not to give them one day of freedom...
...prescribed course, perhaps, receives less thought or work from students than English C. The freedom of the course, the voluntary attendance at lectures and the few forensics called for makes it easy to neglect it. Five forensics, at intervals of six or eight weeks, are a small number and is easy to do the work in a slurring manner; still further the subjects for forensics are often such that, unfortunately, the work done is not always original. Yet the course, if undertaken seriously as it should be, has more than the little value students generally attribute to it. Few undergraduates...
...subject debated was: Resolved. That the Freedom of the Railroads should be further limited by National Legislation...
Anarchy means freedom run wild. Every man has liberty, but it is the liberty of a savage. He makes no attempt to find his place in the social organism, but casting aside all balance and conservatism, has no thought for anything but his own will...
...states the very opposite. He declares that the social life is entirely artificial, that the natural state is one of isolation; a commonwealth makes an artificial man. But this commonwealth must surely be the inevitable condition of human life; the natural man of Hobbs would only have the desolate freedom of a wild ass. So man stands by his very nature in the midst of a social condition, and it is his best course to adjust himself to it, not to try to escape it. His right conduct is the adjustment of his social life to the public order...