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...expectations were not wholly realized. Lord Lee, than whom no other Englishman is alleged to know more about the U. S., which, perhaps, is not surprising, for he married an American, began by suggesting the adoption of the eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not gush...
...program as a desire to make his church one which Abraham Lincoln would have joined. He quoted Lincoln: "When any Church will inscribe over its altars, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both law and gospel: 'Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,' that Church will I join with all my heart and all my soul...
...time when the Italian Government is dropping courtesies to the Church of Rome and the latter is significantly but coldly observing the amenities, His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa, chose to issue a pastoral letter to his flock on the subject of "Thou shalt not kill...
Censorship is daughter of Intolerance, and member of a large family of Thou-shalt-nots who thrive and grow fat throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower...
American philosophy of the state is in this respect quite different from the French. The state exists to prevent infringement of the thou-shalt-not's of the law. Except for the exercise of this primary right, government is supposed to stand aloof, and in the arts, as in business, it boasts a policy of "laissez faire...