Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Here is the key to the mystery. The problem is solved. Absurdly, simple after all. Place the forefinger under the hour eleven on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and collect one course. Do the same on the opposite page. Now turn back to the center of the book lest a thesis has crept up on you unawares...
...live today in an era of political unrest and consequently political intolerance. The people of the Middle Ages lived in an epoch of religious intolerance. We now learn that they were wrong; let us take care lest posterity judge of us as we judge of the Age of Darkness. Then some humans were mentally favored beyond their contemporaries, and preached ideas realized only much later; whatever of folly was proposed by them lost its bearing and fell away, but whatever of good was championed by them has survived and has pushed man on in his development. If these Reds have...
...Socialism is little heard of in the Orient, and it is for this reason alone that we now have cause to fear Russia. Japan harbors no hatred for the Russian people, but we cannot help instinctively fearing Bolshevism, lest it sweep away the age-old morality on which Japan has been built. I do not conceive of Bolshevism as being entirely bad--the fault is that the ignorant mind takes too literally anything new and striking. When affairs in Russia have settled down we shall be able to judge as to the faults and merits of the system that...