Word: nation
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...Social advancement is only secured by nations whose wealth is sufficient to make possible leisure, learning and the means of refinement. The rise of wealthy classes in a nation adds to its political security.- Ellis H. Roberts in New Princeton Review, May, 1887; J. S. Mill, Political Economy...
...Harvard Finance Club was given last evening in Sever Hall by Professor Andrews of Brown University. The speaker began by describing the great evils arising from fluctuations in the value of money. He said that falling prices may cause as much loss in the wealth of a nation as a national war. It is the inevitable tendency of gold and silver to increase in value notwithstanding the immense quantities added every year from the mines and the substitution of credit systems for money. The metals are subject to the law of diminishing returns, while all other commodities are free from...
There is an excellent review of Prof. Laughlin's "Elements of Political Economy" in the last issue of the Nation...
...negro education.- Rep't of S. C. Sup't of Education. (c) Impoverishment of South.- Brown in Cong. Rec., Jan. 19, '88, p. 566. (d) Insufficiency of school appropriations.- Rep't of La., Ga., N. C. school commissioners, 1886. 2. Uneducated voters harm the State.- Aristotle's Politics; Nation...
...nations of antiquity, the Greeks were the first to conceive the idea of perfect unity in dualism and to reason it out to its fullest extent. They recognized the truth that physical soundness is the basis of mental and moral excellence. They saw in a person's gait a key to his character, and strove to realize that beautiful symmetry of shape, which for us exists only in the ideal, or in the forms of Divinity, which they sculptured from figures of such perfect proportions.' Early in the history of their civilization we find that they bestowed great care upon...