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Passing the scientific question of the vitalizing effect of battles long ago interwoven with rocks and rills, it remains sufficiently apparent that the editor of the Transcript believes in education by the incitement of patriotic pride. It is useless to deny an intention to " inculcate hatreds " when the purpose of education is made the inspiration of pride by reference to wars and enmities. And it is worse than useless to call the resulting attitude of mind "culture." The bare fact is that such a theory of education makes the school an agency of chauvinism, ignorance and prejudice. The Germans proved...
...peroration Mr. Baldwin said: " I have gone to the utmost limit of my power to relieve the taxpayer without impairing the credit of the nation; for the future credit of the nation and relief to the taxpayer are in the long run inextricably interwoven. I believe that although we are still in a series of transition years we have already passed the peak load of taxation, and we may hope soon to have left behind us the calamitous years of trade depression. But our hopes may be frustrated by untoward events on the Continent or untoward events at home. Industrial...
...ambitions in the form of letters and journals. These records help us to understand how men thought, and to understand how men thought is to go more than half-way towards understanding the age in which they lived. The literature and the history of a period are so closely interwoven that it is almost impossible to separate them--in fact, until our day, no one has tried to separate them. For example we may learn much about the attitude of England toward Napoleon by an examination of the records of Parliament, but we must turn to Coleridge before we dare...
Unquestionablyit is the orderly chronicling of events that underlies al history. But interwoven must be color and life or the events will lose their relative importance or fail to stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed...
...doors leading to the three exterior pulpits are busts of the heroes of the war, the King, the Queen, and Cardinal Mercier. The coats of arms of Belgium and the United States are framed in the high balustrade which surrounds and crowns the building; in this balustrade is interwoven an inscription describing the destruction of the old Library and the fact that the restoration is a gift of the American people. "Furore Teutonica Diruta.--Dono Americano Restituta...