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...years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract. And the end? Clothes, like the appendix, are a useless relic of evolution. For modesty, for protection, for display, we dress. These purposes are outworn. The new man will be naked as Heaven's cherubim; he will build towers to which the Spire of Salisbury were but a wand...
...ungrateful for what Johnson has done for her, but he has made the means of expressing her gratitude difficult. In the give and take of politics, he has lacked the capacity for mutual easements and accommodations with his fellows. And in 1924 his 1912 Progressivism is a bit outworn...
...realm of sheer speculation. Methods of production, the organization of industry, our whole social fabric, will inevitably be affected by new discoveries and inventions, and by the time we have developed to the point where we will be willing to live in a socialist state, socialism may find itself outworn and useless...
...Modernists are doing a temporarily necessary job in preventing ignorant people from being misled by the preposterous and outworn notion that there is any conflict between true religion and science...
This question was part of an appeal to abandon devotion to "outworn and discredited capitalism," made by Norman Thomas, chairman of the League for Industrial Democracy, in the debate on Socialism held at the Liberal Club Saturday night. Mr. Thomas' opponent, supporter of capitalism, was Professor J. Murray Carroll of Bates College. The debate was the feature of Saturday's session of the New England Student Conference, which was held here during the week-end under the auspices of the League for Industrial Democracy...