Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conservatism, however, in just proportion, makes memory possible; preserves faithfulness, and with reverend hand upholds to us noble examples of the heroes and the saints who are gone. It stores up for succeeding generations the knowledge and the moral worth of the past. Thus also wise radicalism is a power for good because it is truly progressive, creative, affirmative...
...religion so supplies this necessity of man's being as does Christianity. The consciousness of Christ's presence comes to us at first as an impulse, but as faith grows, His power becomes a deep rooted principle upon which we can lean with confidence...
Boylston Chemical Club. A Talk on the Chemical and Mechanical Properties of Acetylene, the New Illuminant. (Illustrated by experiments). Mr. P. McGeorge, of the Acetylene Light, Heat, and Power Company. Boylston...
...money; still less towards comprehending the relations between gold and silver in the performance of that function. Until more is known about the cave of Machpelah than history has banded down, the statement that Abraham paid four hundred shekels for it throws but a faint light on the purchasing power of money in his time; while the proud boast that King Solomon "made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones," though enough to make Senators Jones and Stewart rank infidels, does not even suggest a ratio...
...Invasion by foreign enemy is practically impossible: Nation LVI, 190-91.- (e) General reasons for existence of large European navies do not apply to us: Nation LXII, 47.- (1) We have no colonial interests conflicting with those of other American or European nations.- (2) There is no balance of power to be maintained in America as in Europe.- (f) United States can attain greatness without large armaments: Nation...