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Died. Judge Mayer Sulzberger, 79, former President Judge of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court and one of the most eminent figures of the Pennsylvania judiciary in a generation. He had a national reputation as a Jewish scholar and was the possessor of one of the finest private libraries in America...
...could hardly be expected to wait. Think of the results if such as he should succeed; one hundred and ten million people in one country all capable of anything--health, happiness, strength the property of all; complete immunity from accident, from weakness, from sickness. Surely the possessor of such a panacea is only right in telling the world...
...Mental Hygiene." The New England conscience, he says, is a form of egotism that makes a moral issue of every trivial thought or feeling. It takes the adventure out of life and puts in its place all manner of safety-first devices which warp the mind of the possessor...
...wonder whether he does think that "indifference" is after all one of the attractions of the well-known university, to men who come from beyond the limits of New England to attend it Mr. Train himself rather idealizes maintained for generations, argue in its possessor? Does it not to the ordinary mind tell a tale of superiority? A more upstart may affect indifference, but can he "get away with if:? What is the fine outward air of indifference (we are still looking at the matter from the point of view of the ordinary observer) but a proof of aristocracy either...
...Because he is an idealist, with his feet on the ground. He has consistently translated his ideals into action, not-into words. His broad sympathies are tempered by hard common sense, and he is also the possessor of a sense of humor, which (one may safely believe) will keep him from regarding himself as the repository of all wisdom, or the sole spokesman of his one hundred million fellow-citizens. He seems so far never to have lost his head, with abundant opportunity to do so. He has showed the ability to carry out vast measures of relief abroad with...