Word: let
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...saying, should venture to discuss something so remote from our daily lives, than that all of us should keep our lips closed for fear of incurring the righteous indignation of an uninitiated person. But this step of ours was premature; we are "entirely incompetent" to deal with such problems. Let us, then, with reluctant but expectant hearts, give over the further discussion of the question to Mr. Prosser for more intelligent treatment...
...weaker nations--in those vocations there is no outlook of social justice, or of righteous acquiescence in the other fellow's striving for the same standards that we seek for ourselves. Instead of impotently denying the materialistic strain in the individual's life and thus breeding hypocrisy or scoffing, let us recognize the economic basis and utilize this recognition for such a broadening as will give the whole people a square deal in those physical advantages. In short, less Billy Sunday salvation and more Roosevelt social justice and Wilson democracy in the mill towns...
...Lazarus and I apparently agreed that the present product of the American schools and colleges is unsatisfactory; in what respects and to what extent this is so, we seem to differ. Let us examine the nature of the evil. What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public...
...reason for our overemphasis of such a philosophy in, let us say, America, is, I believe, an extreme and shocked reaction away from the opposite extreme of a purely materialistic interpretation of history which would rob us of God and a despotically socialist state which would deprive us of all freedom...
...still there as a resource of restlessness, vague discontent, lack of interest and zest in one's profession, and so forth. For those interests and accomplishments which are not turned to account and given scope in a man's profession constitute a restless though a "silent" partner. For example, let a man who in his boyhood has been devoted to outdoor sports think twice before he chooses an utterly sedentary career, or one who was early impressed and fascinated by the miracles of plant and animal life meditate carefully before he rushes into the more austere delights and the dazzling...