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What is the aim to be sought in creating a memorial? The feeling which should be sought is one of reflex action on the spirit of the beholder, to awaken a vital, motivating incentive to higher and nobler sacrificial patriotic living. The utilitarian type, with its appeal chiefly to the physical senses, fails completely to touch the realm of the spirit. Is there any more "practical" or more "useful" ambition than to aim to consummate a memorial so designed and so executed as to keep over before the senses of passers-by the devotion to duty of those we seek...
...Inner Light is not human conscience or human reason, but is above both, illuminating reason and sensitizing conscience. "It is," Howard Brinton has written in one of the Pendle Hill pamphlets, "that Creative Power which first dawned upon chaos and which draws all things upward into nobler states of being." It is also the source of inspiration of the Bible and of all saints and holy men-the perpetual power which makes possible a continuing revelation. It is for illumination by the Inner Light that Quakers wait in silence in their meetings. For its wider working in the world they...
...year 1947 spotlighted his rise to fame from military genius to the even nobler role of defender of human democracy, and the inspiring plan which bears his name is 1947-8 most effective challenge to the Russian threat of world domination...
...least the band is better, isn't it George! He wished he hadn't said that again and again. Maybe the band wasn't really so good and it sounded like the Ivy League Album all the time anyway. Indifferent or not-that is the question. Whether tis nobler with subsidize or lily-white Bingham. God I feel awful, what's the matter with me today! It must be the game. Vag realized he had been talking to the girl and now he said, well, let's decide where we'll go to George's or to George...
...been lifted into control, that he is automatically made competent to exert control. When the Common Man was thus suddenly liberated, what he needed . . . was such education as would enable him to understand what hitherto only the controlling few had been encouraged to try to understand, the nobler and wiser aims of the race, those visions which dictate the ethical foundations of a sound society...