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...combining of effort in a common cause raises the opinion of both laborer and college man for one another. To a considerable extent the Dominion thus prevents the formation of class barriers Canada has in part made good her boast that a university educator is within reach of the humblest...
...York Chamber of Commerce, except a certain notorious prayer. The author of that prayer also thanked God he was not as other men are, and recorded with the same smirking self-satisfaction his financial righteousness and his virtuous self-restraint. No rich parvenu can ever have addressed his humblest poor relation in a tone of more offensively oleaginous patronage than this...
...only device which has been found to work to prevent war when quarrels became acute. Without it, civilization itself would soon disappear; in fact, it could never have existed. It is the Court which everywhere has kept peace and this has been true in ever-widening circles. Even our humblest Court is that of the "Justice of the Peace...
...British Parliamentary delegation to the Interparliamentary Union meeting to be held in Washington. He is not appointed by the British Government nor selected by any authority of the British Government. I know of no reason why he should be considered exempt from the immigration law any more than the humblest immigrant who holds subversive or revolutionary views and carries on propaganda contrary to our institutions. It is the policy of this Government to exclude such persons from coming to this country...
...members of well-connected families, 5 came from the so-called middleclass: Addington, son of a doctor; Disraeli, grandson of a merchant; Gladstone, son of a shipowner; Asquith, son of a manufacturer; George, son of an itinerant teacher. The remaining one, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, was born in the humblest circumstances, his relatives being fishers and farm hands...