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...Nationalist order of things. The happy result of this emphasis on things theoretical is that the Fascist reader can contentedly describe the volume as bunk, the internationally minded Socialist can contentedly read about the development of a world "communal organization", and the old school liberal can contentedly pore over an internationalism based on natural law and democracy. Even the critic can contentedly point to inconsistencies like the building up of an analogy between the individual citizen under municipal law and the individual state under international law, which is explained away when no longer useful...
...every three or four years in various countries since the first convention in Paris (1878), the I. G. C. tries not only to reach international standards of nomenclature and to serve as an international clearinghouse for new discoveries and theories, but also to give visiting geologists a chance to pore over the rocks and con tours of the countries in which the meetings are held...
...steel from the rich, and I steel from the pore...
...England is higher than in the United States. If this is true, the lack of the right kind of bookshops is a contributing cause. In the mother country, every town has its antiquarian bookshop where the youth may browse and the scholar linger. It is vastly stimulating to pore over old books; to discover literature in its contemporary form. While a diamond is always a diamond, it is enhanced by its setting. So also with literature. Who can compare the joy of finding a beautiful passage on an old page to the prosaic pleasure of reading it from a cheap...
...library was a matter of envy; and in the long absences of her husband, Mistress Anne, being a "goodly young woman of special parts," was quick to 'sconce herself in the deep chairs and seek companionship in that cozy den. Too long however did the small head pore and ponder, for shortly, as one learns there befell "a sad infirmity, the loss of understanding and reason, which had been growing on her by occasion of giving herself wholly to reading...