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...Partial opening of Fair equally undesirable. - (a) Same reasons apply as against complete opening. - (b) Intended for finance not for the workingmen: Advance, Nov. 17, 1892. - (c) The quiet Sabbath scheme Utopian and impracticable: Our Day, IX, 698 - (d) Religious services more conveniently held in the city free of charge: Our Day, IX, 698 - (e) Entering wedge to complete Sunday opening...
...results. But we should consider it rather, as a practical means to get at a definite end. The drink habit is the enemy, and it is the business of legislation to pick out suitable weapons, and means of attack, and then to employ them. It must necessarily have a partial, tentative effect, because the subject is one of ethics; because of the necessary effect every man must have on the whole social organism...
Social questions are in reality, moral ones. Even behind all economic and political questions, lies the fact that the conscience of the country is pricked with shame. All these things find a partial solution in an attempt to form an ethical theory...
...Partial revision is possible and desirable...
...frustrate this design the Executive Committee put extra men to work, night as well as day, at double wages. So when the boarding mistresses closed their houses yesterday they were surprised to learn that the first meal would be ready at the new club that evening, and that the partial famine would thus be averted...