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...elastic to be classified under one head. It may stretch over a man's entire life or end with his senior year at high school. While it lasts the philosophy of the "milieniumite", the pleasant dream of a little "kingdom round the corner" holds complete sway...
...coming to be regarded as the new alignment of the Powers. France, England, and Italy are all nations firmly founded upon the fundamental security of private property. Behind all of them stands the tremendous shadow of Roman civilization. Russia, and to a certain extent Germany, never came under the sway of Rome and never became so wholly saturated with the traditions of private property. Napoleon's famous saying, "Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar", is being vindicated. Russian civilization, at least its representatives in the saddle today show all the characteristics of the wandering, nomadic tribes...
There is an old verse somewhere, "How are the mighty fallen!" which may well apply to the Classics. Four hundred years they held complete sway over literature and scholarship. Not to know Greek was to lack culture, not to read Latin was to be partially illiterate. Yet today it is a confession, calling for excuses and apologies, to admit concentration in the Classics. One feels almost ashamed to be seen leaving a Greek course, the old classical library has fallen into the hands of the Business School, and only one table has been saved from the ruin for those...
...socialists in Germany would refuse to support their Government and thus prevent war; but when the war came, that did not happen. In some cases, as in Alsace-Lorraine for example, the people, or many of them, did not consider that they belonged to the country that held sway over them; but that is another question, the question to what nation patriotism...
...some years, the result is doubtful and the expense certain. He may be obliged to tell them also that their view of their rights is exaggerated, and that they have not been wronged to the extent that they have imagined. Wrath has time to cool, common sense regains its sway, and if the outside is represented by a good lawyer the two together can adjust the dispute and save their clients time, strength and money...