Word: lawlessness
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...Austin Abbott, Dean of the New York University Law School spoke next. What can a people without land be, except lawless? In the Catholic Church, a man excommunicated is out of the community - almost literally. The Indians are in a similar state, they are excommunicated. It must follow that they are lawless and we cannot complain. We demand for the Indians an amenability to law and the right of appeal to law. The alternative...
...last evening to hear Mr. Hamilton's prize dissertation on "Boniface, the Apostle to the Germans." Mr. Hamilton began with a brief review of the general condition of Europe in the eighth century. Society was imbued with the rankest spirit of barbarism. There was no security from the lawless bands of robbers. Pillage drove all who had any feelings of duty to the monasteries and cloisters. The glory of Rome as a nation was gone and the bishop of Rome saw an opportunity to raise a powerful church out of the ruins of the Caesars. The ravages of the Huns...
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...Dartmouth is unusually good. It opens with a very clever article entitled the "Cave of Poetry." A number of students come together to read and discuss some half-dozen poems, - some sentimental, some comic. There is also an exciting story of lawless life in old California, which is declared in a note to be absolutely true; it is certainly stranger than the average fiction. The other articles are by no means without merit...