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...west make little or no discrimination between the various communities inhabiting the vast subcontinent of India. All the different religions now found among millions of Hindus go by the name of Hinduism. Narrow minded persons have for the last 100 years been painting Hinduism in the most hideous possible colors. They have shown through pulpits and press their satisfaction that Hindu religious doctrines are mythological accounts of the passionate escapades and cruelties of a host of imaginary gods and goddesses. However, the East has maintained her philosophic calm at such a procedure, knowing full well that this...
Harvard should indeed be proud of her publications and more than proud of her Crimson. The editorial in that paper for January the eighteenth on the subject of pacifism was the most striking example of distorted thought, muddled expression and hideous English, which I have ever seen, even in the monthly efforts of a country high school...
Lynching?"The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the Negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims...
Some of the cartoons used by the opponents are boomerangs. One of them represents the Censor as a weeping, hideous creature, defiled in political mire. Either this has no application to the question, or it attempts to describe the persons who will examine our films,--the Commissioner, Governor, and Council and Courts. If it has any effect, it will bring the fundamental institutions of government into popular contempt. Could any anarchist strike a more nasty blow at the foundations of society...
...this very height and monotony of suffering--no mere mortal could bear it without either involuntary reaction or complete dissolution. For this reason by far the most effective appeal is made in the moments after Hamlet has trapped his uncle into betrayal of guilt, when the long strain of hideous uncertainty and brooding breaks at last and a tortured human mind gives way to reaction. For that one brief interval Hamlet is one of us who has suffered to the top of his bent and lost control--he laughs, capers, and altogether offers a more convincing counterfeit of madness than...