Word: nation
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Individual competition has done more than anything else to make the nation what it is. Socialism is self-contradictory and opposed to deep-rooted and ineradicable human instincts. If everything is accessible to all, why should man strive for something that will not be remunerative to him? Each is proud of his own skill, knowledge, and ability. Socialism in the United States would drive those of superior qualities out of the country, to where such qualities would have a free chance...
...explain many of the customs prevalent in China today, the religious of the people, and the effect of modern civilization upon them. He closed by showing the change which the new awakening of the people is bringing about in the country and what education is doing for a nation, the masses of which look back thousands of years for their ideals of civilization...
Francis Brown President of Union Theological Seminary; honored in two continents for his labors on the Old Testament, which modern learning has made new; wise and trusted Christian teacher of whose attainments his nation is proud...
...higher and better type of secondary school than we possess, or are likely to possess for many years. Moreover, excellent as the German system is for Germany, it is not wholly suited to our Republic, which cannot, in my opinion, afford to lose the substantial, if intangible, benefits the nation has derived from its colleges. Surely the college can give freedom of thought, a breadth of outlook, a training for citizenship, which neither the secondary nor the professional school in this country can equal...
...Samuel Franklin Emmons, geologist; eminent in science; forty years in the service of the nation, skilfully exploring the mineral resources of the continent...