Word: selfishnesses
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...brotherhood does not benefit the community, since (a) by its action commerce is obstructed: Boston Herald, March 8; Nation, March 8, 1888. (b) And property destroyed. The object of the order is selfish: Taussig, South-Western Strike, Quarterly Journal of Economics...
...opposition of the fishermen is selfish and unreasonable: Boston Herald, Feb. 25, '88, p. 4. The opposition of Republican senators is factious and partisan: N. Y. Evening Post, (semi-weekly...
...vespers yesterday afternoon, Dr. Hale officiated, assisted by Dr. F. G. Peabody. In his address, Dr. Hale spoke of two classes of people, the one composed of those who go to their daily work without thought of future reward; the other, composed of those whose minds are filled with selfish and sordid purposes. People of the first class are successful simply because they have interest in the work itself. That interest is not purchased by bribery, is not caused by fear of consequences; but is present because God is working out his purposes through these earnest men and women...
...those of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh. Whether such a plea is likely to have any effect on the men at Harvard is a matter of grave doubt. There are a few, no doubt, who would be willing to make the sacrifice, but most of us are too selfish, too securely bound up in our own petty lives, to give much thought to the unfortunate beings who make up the North...
...third motive of knowledge is the attempt to satisfy the intellectual appetite. Still even this motive cannot be wholly approved, since it is selfish and tends to destroy the balance and evenness of physical development. There is yet another motive-to extend the boundaries of knowledge by the truth-seeker, but this cannot be the right aim since the object truth is unattainable and it is not right for us to try to find what we cannot reach. Truth is unattainable because what we do know as certain compared to what we do not know is insignificant...