Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...direct step towards state centralization and the destruction of local autonomy. - (a) The modern state is unable to perform well its present functions - (b) The attention of the state in this matter is less harmful today than excessive intrusion: Beaulieu 156 - (c) All Anglo Saxon nations hold local self-government to be the essence of freedom...
...Abbott then said that he wanted to speak to each one as though he were addressing him personally. I see before me, he said, the self-satisfied man, and to him I want to speak. If men like Phillips Brooks, Professor Drummond and Mr. Donald fail to make the self-satisfied man feel his mistakes, if their arguments do not make him repent of his self satisfaction, then he certainly is beyond all hope of recovery. The man who is ashamed of his past misdeeds and repents, is more sure of forgiveness than the self-satisfied...
Dreaming is not doing. The man who ran to Christ to ask what he could do for his repentance, and who, when he was told that he must give up his worldly riches, decided he could not part with them, is a fair representative of the self satisfied type. We may talk of loving this or that but when the time for action comes we invariably back down...
...movement for student self government at Cornell has culminated in the adoption of a plan practically as suggested by the Faculty in their communication to the student committee some days ago. President Schurman addressed a joint meeting of students and faculty, explaining the conduct and attitude of the faculty toward the proposed reform. He said that the Faculty had given this proposal to put the students entirely on their honor in examinations, the most careful consideration. At first many looked on the proposed plan as revolutionary; but after several protracted discussions they came to adopt it almost unanimously. They desired...
...were, bracketed. To know the poet it is necessary to see the man. His boyhood was passed in close contact with nature, he came to have an intimate acquaintance with all the lake country, and to love it with the healthy love of a country boy without moody self-consciousness or sentimental effusiveness. It was the all important period of his life when his philosophy of life and poetry was determined...