Word: perishability
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which does not hang upon the mercy of chance or of our likes and dislikes, but which if the last copy of it should perish would still live on, because it had transfused with its own divine vitality the intellect and heart of mankind...
...fault with your religion is that it dissociates itself from other pursuits. With us, science grew out of religion, but in your country you are engaged in a fight with science in which you must inevitably be driven into a corner. If you fight religion with science, both must perish. Let your religion be simple and natural, but let it always keep progressing with the rapid progress...
...Hutchinson '93, then spoke on the negative. The campaign of 1884 has shown that the road to the White House is not smooth. Republics rise, grow, flourish, become corrupt and perish. Men must be nominated whose careers are of the highest order and whose characters are spotless. This speaker based the greater part of his arguments upon the charge that Mr. Blaine once prostituted his office for money, when he was the owner of certain railroad bonds...
...prevent the draw on many millions. We maintain fifteen millions as the cost of the tin experiment and this retards us in many things. From the McKinley bill we have got increased taxation. We believe in free raw material, and do not think that our great industries will perish if we have less taxation on the necessaries of life. The Democracy stands for equality, progress and protection in its highest sense...
...wonder the word "vision" became a proverb among the Jews, Over and over again they relapsed, but there was constantly held before them by their prophets the vision of a beautiful land. Where there are no visions the people perish. It is not what a nation possesses or acquires, but it is the national idea which pervades its life. Our own country is not great by what it has, but what it dreams. It is our national ideas which keep us safe and pure...