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...Centenary. Last week Boston celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of George T. Angell, founder and first President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Although Deuteronomy 22 :16 contains humane laws for animals, and Deuteronomy 25:4 says: " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the grain," Massachusetts, in 1868, was treating its dumb animals in a careless or outrageous manner. Mr. Angell, busy lawyer, founded...
RAIN?A powerful and well-acted indictment of a rabid missionary in the South Seas. For three acts the audience squirms with delight while Jeanne Eagels discredits " the eleventh commandment": Thou shalt not commit enjoyment...
Similarly in urging youth to temper its daily conduct with thoughtfulness, it is difficult to escape the form "Thou shalt" and "Thou shalt not". Moral exhortations in these forms are excellent in their way but indigestible when not highly tempered by imagination and especially when administered in large doses. They lose effectiveness in proportion as they increase in number and lack imagination. When a schoolboy hears "My Vacation" spoken of as a "fearsome opportunity of time", he is not apt to be properly terrified...
...regenerated Germany. But it is nevertheless true that the spirit of the whole work of legislative reform which brought about the reconstruction of Prussia after the battle of Jena would not have been what it was but for the influence of Kant's thought. 'Thou canst, for thou shalt'--these words in which Kant epigramatically summed up his view of life were indeed the fundamental creed of all those noble men who, in the years following the Prussian debacle, tried, as Frederick William III said, to help the state 'to replace by spiritual agencies what it had lost in physical...
...priests, they were lawyers, engineers, teachers, and magicians. The combining of religious with legal practices, such as these, was highly developed by the Hindoos. The teaching of religious morally and religious justice was closely related to law with them, especially in the case of religious commandments such as "Thou shalt not kill." Homicide is the origin of private feud. Apart from the injury done by homicide, there is the great sacramental sin which has to be purified. The only persons who can wipe out this sin are the priests--the sorcerers of religious magic. The curse was the greatest power...