Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Best general references: J. D. Dennis, Foreign Missions after a Century; North American Review, vol. 162, pp. 21-32 (Jan. 1896); Forum, vol. XVII, p. 475 (June 1894); Forum, vol. XVIII, pp. 481-490 (Aug. 1894); Century, vol. LX, pp. 500-509 (Feb. 1896); "The Spirit of Missions," vol. XL, p. 524 (Dec 1895); Rev. Geo. A. Gordon "The Gospel for Humanity" (sermon); Bishop Littlejohn, "Foreign Missions" (sermon); Reports of the American Board; International Journal of Ethics, vol. VI, pp. 182-204, (Jan. 1896); Sir R. Temple, "Men and Events of My Time in India;" "Missions and Science" (Ely volume...
...General Walker delivered last night the fourth lecture of his series on Bimetallism. His subject for the evening was: "France and the United States from the Close of the Eighteenth Century to the Gold Discoveries of 1848-1851." The lecturer first outlined the history of the relative changes in the value of gold and silver in France, showing that the act of 1808, which provided for the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 15.5 to 1, was successful in maintaining a stable monetary basis in Europe...
...critic, he was insensible to Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth...
...Future relations with Great Britain.- (1) Feelings of hostility and distrust greatly fostered.- (x) These were strong enough already as is shown by-(a) Response to message: Pub. Op. Dec. 26, 1895 (pp. 841-843); Rice in Forum XX pp. 725-726 (Feb. 1896).- (c) Future foreign relations generally.- (1) Feeling in favor of jingoistic policy everywhere and always strengthened.- (x) This was strong enough already as is shown by -(x) General condemnation of Cleveland's foreign policy before Dec. 1895.- (b) Response to message: Pub. Op. ut supra...
...President's message was bad in its general effects upon civilization.- (a) It tends to strengthen the war spirit.- (1) Readiness shown to think of war: Nation LXI, p. 458 (Dec. 26, 1895).- (2) General appeal to bellicose feeling: Senator Walcott in Cong. Rec. p. 976 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (b) Tends to pervert standards of national honor and greatness.- (1) Insistance on immediate forcible resistance to "anything like an insult," as a test of national honor: C. E. Norton in Forum XX, p. 649-651 (Feb. 1896); Wm. James in Cong. Rec. p. 461 (Dec. 31, 1895); Nation...