Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...applied to both sides of the case with facility, for one can scarcely imagine a populist disowning the Constitution. The disturbing thesis that the 51 percent have no right to rule therefore appears still unconfuted save by the call to arms. The threat of physical force or mental boycott is the logic which better than any other justifies the will of the majority...
...going to scattered lectures today, scattered in time and in place. There is something satisfying in attending four successive lectures in the morning, perhaps it gives one a chance to shift mental gears four times. On the other hand, to a vagabonding soul, it smacks too much of law and order...
...Kinley invoke opposite methods. The "dynamic education", championed by the Pennsylvania President would impart to the students the inspiration nearest at hand, namely, the current industrial and social crusades, the drama which is being so unsystematically waged throughout the world. To ask the student to take his mental intoxicants from modern turmoil is, however, hurrying his ultimate fate. Allow him first to realize that education is not merely supplementary to life but preparatory for life, that it can create the character of life, for it is not bound to select its creeds from momentary enthusiasms but can range the whole...
...point of view more lasting good can be achieved by impressing on the normal man the advantage of obeying the law than by spending a like amount of energy in the attempt to teach a lunatic the difference between right and wrong. One can never hope that a mental defective will do constructive work for society or even that he will become independent of charitable aid. Practically therefore the sane criminal should at least be on a parity with the lunatic wrongdoer in the eyes of the law. Misplaced mercy to the hopelessly insane does not add to the total...
...violent little Voltaire with faith in epithets and protoplasm, but not in philosophy. In 1913 he took a Nobel Prize for physiology, and to him wisdom is manifest in the perfect functioning of an animal organism unmolested by what others have been pleased to call the "higher" mental faculty. Farfetched, superficial, his book is but an amusing social irritant...