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...revolution which ushered in the entire mechanism of modern civilization? How long before the Wrights of the aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves in immortal language and their memory will perish. But Dr. Johnson had a press agent in Boswell, Darwin had one in Huxley, and Benjamin Franklin, like Goethe, Leonardo, Dante and Cellini, was his own press agent. If you would have fame, "that last infirmity of noble minds," give up building skyscrapers, railroads, empires, military machines, and write...
...believes that he would approve the nomination of Ford, or even Bryan. His "hope" that a Progressive Democrat would be chosen to fill the vacant seat from Colorado may be a hit at the conservative Underwood. Possibly he means to support his son-in-law, whom he allowed to perish miserably at San Francisco when a turn of his thumb might have made him President McAdoo, after recommending another candidate to Governor Sweet, has also endorsed Mr. Wilson's choice, while Bryan backed up McAdoo's first selection...
...Allen chose a text as follows: "Where there is no vision the people perish; but he that keeneth the law, happy is he". To interpret his text he restated it. Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint; where there is no restraint the people perish". He stated as his belief that there was a breaking down of moral standards which could not be accounted for by the war or by the heterogeneity of the United States. "The only safeguard of any country", he stated, "is the respect of the people for law. We cannot expect a future...
...Many men who could do much better merely sought to avod too many Ds. Some few worked for high marks, but the stimulus which comes from competition and plublicity and which helped make prowness in athletics so much desired, was lacking in academic fields. Many men who would rather perish than be called slackers in athletics were willing to dodge all but the bare necessities in studies...
...clear that poetry will never perish for poetry is a revelation of not only the eternal beauty, but also of the eternal verities of the world...