Word: nation
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Mohammed wisely called the Jewish nation the people of books. From the very first knowledge of the race to the present time the wide gamut of Lennan feeling has been struck by the poetry and philosophy of rabbinical literature. The Talmud was the literary production of Jewish religion preceeding the period taken up by the Old Testament. At that time Jewish religion embraced everything; there was not an actor a desire which was not controlled by religious feeling. Everything in the Jews' daily life had a been spiritual significance. Examples of their domestic life, their homely customs and habits, were...
Primarily, the work is a satire upon Norwegian character, bringing out its lack of personality and vacillating half-heartedness, but the poet went beyond the limits of his original conception, and gave to the world the picture of a misguided human soul, in which people of every nation may see themselves more or less prefigured...
...that the Uitlanders have had many causes of just complaint, that the policy of the Boers has often been short-sighted and that England is acting as any other great power would probably act in her place. I sympathize with the Boers because they are fighting heroically for their national existence and for the right to govern their own land. However mistaken they may have been in many of their acts, they have only acted in self defense. I am convinced that until almost the last moment hostilities could have been avoided by England, while the Boers were left with...
...weaker and struggling for independence, but in view of the great interest Great Britain has in South Africa and the evident desire on the part of the Boers to establish an independent republic as evinced in Kruger's policy since 1881, Great Britain is acting as any other nation would act under the circumstances. This is explained by the fact that the importance of the Dutch element in the British colonies would seriously endanger Great Britain's future possession of those colonies. The question is a racial one which can hardly be settled in any other way. The war will...
...proposal was made shows this, as does the continual massing of troops on the Boers' borders. The true inwardness of the matter is not and can not be known for some time, but right seems to be on the side of the Boers. At least the sight of a nation leaving all and going in a body to the front to fight for their homes ought to inspire the admiration of a republic like America and compel it to suspend its judgment...