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...puts it) of the strongest, and the supposed suggestion in his doctrine that the breeding of fierce soldiers is the key to national preeminence in the world's affairs. But just as both parties in the world war can, if they like, claim that Nietzsche is on their side--hater of Prussians and of all Prussianism as he certainly was, yet author of the "superman" theory--so the Darwinians may point out that, according to Darwin, it is the fittest, and not necessarily the strongest physically or materially, that survives, and fitness may reside as much in patience, in industry...
...scene of "The Witch" is laid in Salem in the year 1692. Joan, a young Portuguese woman comes to Salem and marries Absalom Hawthorn, an avowed witch-hater. She soon finds that she really loves, not Absalom, but his grown-up son, Gabriel. Joan knowing that her own mother possessed supernatural power decides to see if she has inherited it, and wills Absalom dead. He dies immediately, falling at her feet. His old mother Goodwife Abigail, suspects witchery and demands that Joan take the "test of touching." In this test she breaks down and admits that she is a witch...
...fiction is, as usual, of uneven merit. "The City of Hoggsville" and "Adin Ray Knight Errant" are slight, but distinctly amusing. "Room-mates" introduces a good situation, but the difficulty is not sufficiently explained by the subsequent appearance of a cheap and consumptive sister to the mysterious "mate." "A Hater of Pictures" is written, perhaps intentionally, in that racy style that one associates with tracts, but the denouement is cleverly concealed till the last sentence, and then it is so sudden that the it leaves the reader gasping...
...plain white marble, and bears the following inscription: "Theodore Parker, 1810-1860. Graduate of this school in 1836. Preacher, reformer, scholar; master of wide learning applied to human uses by frank and unsparing speech; fearless follower of Jesus, bearing witness to the truth; lover of righteousness, hater of iniquity; a hero in fight, a saint in prayer; he proclaimed as human invitations the perfection of God, the authority of conscience, the assurance of immortality. 'Sin to rebuke, to break the captive's chains; to call thy brethren forth from want...
...have a monotony of style which may be attributable to the fact that all the work in this department has been done by a small number of men. The literary department the paper, in contrast to most of its previous issues, is decidedly better than the pictorial. "The Woman Hater," told in natural slang, is a new and enjoyable illustration of an old subject. "The Commentator," and "In Chem. 1," re deserving of mention...