Word: richer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would be done unless $1200 more is subscribed before that date. Only $1267 has been collected up to today, an average of $3 subscribed by each member of Ninety-four. Most men can afford to give as much as this; very many men can afford to give more. The richer men have not subscribed in proportion to their means, and it is with them that the responsibility will rest if their crew does not go to New London. The members of the crew have had to buy their own uniforms almost entirely. They cannot be expected also to buy their...
...Hegel chose to bury in a mass of barbaric words. Each one of us, Hegel said, is what some other moment of his life finds him reflectively to be. All consciousness is merely an appeal to other consciousness, to a past self. The more we commune with others, the richer this past consciousness becomes. An attempt to attain holiness through separation from the world is therefore useless. True, spiritual life lies rather in struggling with sin and overcoming...