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Characteristic utterances: "Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." "Democracy is likely to perish." "The Church has lived by its monopolies and conquered by its intolerance." "There is only one thing against Catholicism?it is an imposture ; and there is only one thing in its favor?it works...
...whole. Probably this is the aim of our educators, although it is sadly unwise. And so what boots it anyhow to have anticipated this intellectual robustness in his Senior year? He must suffer the division of tastes and tasks. The dream of mature planning of his education must perish. He must still be the boy with punitive tasks to perform, and "divisionals" keep dividing him against himself. Thus conscience, someone has said, doth make cowards of us all: but the Senior is not altogether blameworthy. Conscience begins to mean nothing else than an institution in this case the institution...
Those who do not like the savor of the trial remarked that eventually even the records of the court will perish from decomposition if not from fire...
...lions of Trafalgar Square jolt by: "Like other ideals, patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy." Looms the House of Parliament: "The corruption of democracies proceeds directly from the fact that one class imposes the taxes and another class pays them. . . . Democracy is likely to perish through national bankruptcy. . . . Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." Glints Buckingham Palace: "When Christ said 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,' He was thinking of the British Empire." At last the Abbey: "The Church burned Bruno and imprisoned Galileo. The Church has lived...
...popular government: "That government whose policy is determined by the ultimate judgment of the people will permanently survive. The government whose actions are determined by the passing phases of pop- ular opinion, as distinguished from ultimate opinion, will perish. The Constitution of the United States establishes the rule of the people, as distinguished from the rule...