Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...vain. The law of requital is the law of the feud, whereby hate for the enemy is born and fostered in generation after generation, till the sum of accumulated hate will end in equal destruction. It is the law of the mob, which strives to repay by brutal sin the commission of a brutal sin. The talonic justice that demands suffering for the offender equal to that which he has inflicted is an outworn creed, fit only for the equity of barbarians...
...Memphis' sin alone. It was not Tennessee's sin alone. It was the sin of this nation, which allows such things to come to pass. It was the sin of our lawlessness, of our mad disregard of all that makes existence bearable...
...weeks time to fight nobly for liberty. Our desire, hardened to unchangeable determination, is to free Europe from Germany. That is a laudable determination, and true to our history. Yet not ten million fighting men could free Europe from her ignorance, her ancient brutality, her narrowness, and her political sin. That rests with Europe. And to date that Government which has been called the most enlightened democracy existent has refused to recognize the freedom of women...
This is the more surprising in Mr. Booth, since he had the advantage, at outset, of a good, workmanlike novel to draw upon. It is not a sin against art to write a romance or construct a play upon the impossible physical resemblance of two men. Only you must get away with it. A certain William Shakespeare, as Professor Baker would say, "got away with it," to a remarkable degree in "Twelfth Night," and so did Anthony Hope in that classic melodrama, "The Prisoner of Zenda." And so did Mrs. Thurston, the original author of "The Masquerader." But Mr. Booth...
...wise as to be able to say that one faction is altogether just, the other altogether evil. At such a time when all wisdom is clouded, and virtue takes on the appearance of sin, no single mind may declare the truth. One should hardly allow his partisanship, however earnest, nor his neutrality, however firm, to bind his liberality...