Word: obey
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thinking of self and urges them to new endeavor. Moreover men are perfectly conscious that until they try to be better they have neglected the first essential to the truest type of life. Though the command is easy to hear it is often very difficult to obey. The strength of the passions is constantly at work to keep a man where he is or to make him worse. This is not the only thing. The great difficulty comes from the fact that the reformed must also be the reformer. It is a case of a man trying to lift himself...
...leaders are thoroughly unscrupulous, with nerves and consciences equally hardened. Indeed if a successful financier is a man of light character, it is more accident than a natural result of the standard of trade. And beyond this, the masses are sifted down, made machines of, told to follow and obey, and thus the best that is in them is never given a chance to express itself...
True liberty is the enlargement of life. To obey law is to gain liberty, for anarchy or "no law" rule brings the worst sort of servility. All the forces which make enlargement of life possible, education, physical training, religion, are roads to liberty. From this we may form a definition of liberty. Liberty is the transfer of allegiance from lower to higher things. The young man again, who gives up law in his search for liberty, who moves in a world of irresponsibility, whose life becomes irregular and disorderly, never finds liberty till he attaches himself to some higher interest...
...undersigned, request the spectators at the game between Ninety-two and Ninety-three to keep back of the ropes, and to obey the marshals who have been appointed by us. We also object to anyone interfering with the personal liberties of the players by the use of mirrors...
...February number of the Forum, Professor Francis G. Peabody contributes a thoughtful article on "A Case of Good City Government." Dresden is the model which is described. The first instinct of an American citizen is to act; the first instinct of a German citizen is to obey and as far as concerns the essentials of good city government, one feels that in the best German cities one has the most substantial administration of the world. The German method offers a contrast to that of the United States since the former is government for the sake of the city...