Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bryce said: It is necessary that the men who are to be in public service should study politics as a science. The times are now more propitious for such study than ever before, for the material is more abundant. Now nearly every civilized nation furnishes this material. Compare the materials with which the writer of the Federalist Papers worked and the vast material which constitutional governments now furnish. With the exception of Russia and Montenegro there is no civilized nation which does not have some form of popular government...
Bishop Gailor, the first speaker, whose subject was "The South," said that in a century whose greatness lay in its discoveries, the greatest discovery of all was that of the nation itself, not as a mere collection of individuals, but in its national character. Every problem in national life is a moral question and therefore ultimately a religious problem. There can be no anthithesis between politics and religion because the nation is bound to the same Almighty as the individual. The great ideals, social and political, are the Christian ideals, not that others have not had ethical insight, but because...
...problems that the West does not also have, and the West has none which the East has not. It is the duty of all public men to minimize the things that differentiate the various parts of the country. The work of the church and the problems of the nation take on different colors in different parts of the country. Thus in the West the church is more agressive than in the East because the problems of the West are less amenable to its influences, owing to the fact that the church is always stronger in older countries. Behind everything, however...
...Brockman said China is the most misunderstood nation in the world. The Chinese are a masterful race. They have a literature considered by some thinkers to be not second to that of Greece, an educational system which is in some respects--notably in the education of public officials by the state--a model for others, and a religion which until the last three of four years has seemed an impregnable fortress. Since the Boxer war, however, the attitude of the literati has rapidly changed from hostility to interest and confidence in occidentals and their civilization. The Chinese are looking...
Moral standards, Mr. Fisher said, are among the higher classes almost on a par with those of any Western nation. The mass of people, however, are largely lacking in moral control. Hence the significance of the common soldiers' contact with the Christian Associations. The destruction of feudalism took away with other restraints moral restraint on the masses of people. Japan is thus in as moral as well as political crisis. Its result will depend largely on the West, to which Japan is looking for leadership. In conclusion, the speaker called attention to the opportunity for influencing the destiny of Japan...