Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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What must be the result on politics? A class of men is created who know that they must tend to politics, or lose their job. Such men become the mercenaries of corrupt political leaders. Against them are arrayed decent men, but these decent men cannot have any such organization as do the mercenaries. Organized corruption has good chances of winning against unorganized decency. The only way to break up this organization of corruption is by taking away from the political leaders the offices by which they pay themselves...
Among the races whose ideas are being considered it was believed that the spirit possessed a form similar to the earthly body with all its attendant needs of food, fire, clothing and the like. Social relations were not thought to change in the spirit world and Job's conception of a place where "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty...
...Job labored not for cattle and lands, but that he might see god, and when he saw all that he had given up coming back to him it was not as wages but as a reward for the self-sacrificing life which he had lived. We can not work for God for wages; the devil alone gives wages...
LECTURES ON LITERATURE.The third lecture by Mr. Copeland-on the English Bible; followed with reading from the books of Job and Ruth, and from the Gospels-will be given in Sever Hall, Monday evening, December 18, at 8 o'clock...
...girls of Vassar have appointed a committee to see that nothing but the truth is told about that institution in the newspapers. What a job that committee has on hand! - Brown Herald...