Word: originated
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Even religion and marriage are to be explained as a result of this original slave-making contract. Religion originated in veneration for former heroes always of the slave-owning class and was perpetuated by the slave-holders through the agency of a subsidized priesthood, as a means of keeping the slaves in check. Marriage owes its origin to the fact that the offspring of slaves had commercial value and for this reason were given prolonged care during childhood. This required that the parents remain together over a considerable period of time, and so led gradually to the institution of marriage...
However ingenious these speculations may appear, it is regrettable that Mr. Fruchs has not seen fit to advance any scientific data in support of them. The time has passed when it is possible for anyone to sit back comfortably and spin out a theory of the origin of institutions hoping to gain acceptance for it. Too much anthropological evidence has been gathered, too many facts have been garnered concerning primitive society, to allow the plausibility of any account which omits them. Unfortunately Mr. Fruchs' account is completely innocent of any anthropological data; his social contract is pure hypothesis...
...thought, we laugh at the politician who mouths glibly that only through more extensive public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous doctrine, it is a smirking dodge. Just so long as politicians control education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written by one who has been called in enlightened public servant...
...pages about clothes lay the explanation of Esquire's origin. Two years ago, the publishers of Esquire started Apparel Arts, a slick quarterly modeled on FORTUNE, to serve as an advertising medium for clothes wholesalers. Retailers, who left copies of Apparel Arts ($1.50 each) lying about, found that their customers took them home. The smart publishers put out another quarterly, Apparel Arts, Fabrics & Fashions, which was circulated among retailers who distributed it to their good customers. It illustrated colored pictures of men's fashions with glued-in swatches of the actual materials used in the suits, ties, handkerchiefs...
...authorities. "Intensive investigation which is not yet complete indicates that this broadcast, far from being a hoax, was substantially correct," said the company. "The investigation does show, however, that a responsible and experienced Columbia man . . . did connive at increasing the number of shots, although there were shots of spontaneous origin. We are satisfied that when Capt.Leach has completed his investigation he will find that our own determination of the facts has been accurate." Said President Ralph Atlass of Station WIND: "Our men relayed information regularly received from the State police. ... All the shooting had been done by police, who fired...