Word: mistaken
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Liberty, Equality and Democracy are all means mistaken for ends. Liberty, which will be considered first, is of two distinct kinds: real liberty and legal liberty. The former is the kind that is of the greatest interest to men. Laws decrease legal liberty but increase real liberty. There are also two kinds of rights: legal and moral; but there are no such things as inalienable rights as maintained by Jefferson, Mill and George. Abraham Lincoln said: "No man has a right to do wrong." Equality is an equal distribution of wealth among the classes of society, and the equal distribution...
...which we call, respectively, tastes and needs. Positive consumption tends to simplify tastes; luxuries are required only by those who have no resources in themselves. Spontaneous consumption is the most useful of these four useful acts. Production is being pursued as an end in itself. When a means is mistaken for an end, that end is sacrificed for the means. The ultimate end must be seen all the time. Less attention should be paid to wealth and more to happiness...
...present system which appear to produce bad results, and to determine what subjects the College clearly ought to require for admission." Members of the Faculty, as well as undergraduates, may well read this article with attention. The Editor of the Monthly, however, in his comments on the subject, is mistaken in thinking that "the citadel of election" may already have fallen. Neither President Lowell, nor the Faculty, has as yet indicated any desire to replace an "elastic" by a "rigid" curriculum...
...give its second informal Yard concert in front of Holworthy this evening at 7.30. The first concert, given on the evening of June 8, marked the revival of an old custom which lapsed without any assigned cause three years ago. The consideration which probably induced this lapse was the mistaken desire to save the selections for the concert given in Sanders Theatre that year for the first time, on the eve of the Yale game. Each year since that time letters have been received lamenting the discontinuance of the concerts, and this year the requests for its revival have been...
Nietzsche called himself an atheist, although he is in reality a God-seeker, since he longs for the holiness of an eternal ethical value in life. He has been mistaken for a philosopher. Critics who have sought to condemn him on these grounds have thereby failed to comprehend his message, since his works cannot be analyzed according to ideas, but must be understood in regard to mental attitudes...