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...they are the nature of the social order and are discovered there by statesmen. The greatest need of the world today is not a better knowledge of nature, that is science; it is a better knowledge of men that is morals. It is not more certain that water quenches thirst and fire expels cold than it is that selfishness separates men and good will unites them...
...fine a point upon it--is like virtue, its own reward. This may sound like arrant sentimentality: it is the soberest truth. The real stimulus to the life of study is not, of course, the applause of the market place but one's own unquenchable thirst for knowledge, one's love of ideas for their own sake. Only those who, however humbly, have swung their oars in it, can know the zest of that Odyssey which is inspired by the desire "To follow knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought...
...There may be nothing in figures, but we venture the suggestion that Great Britain is just one-half of one percent dry, and afraid of becoming more so. While we ah, sad to state!--are one one-half of one percent wet. But judging by the election returns, our thirst is as that of the herd of porkers who "rushed headlong into...
...parts," perhaps the greatest misfortune derived from the non-ratification of the peace-treaty has seemed neglected. President Wilson has refused to lift the dry-ban yoke from the necks of a husky nation. The failure of the treaty prolongs war and thirst. Just at the time when people are looking forward to a different and more liberal order of things has the Senate so cynically proved to us that the sacrifices of the last two years have been in vain. Little did the poor unsuspecting public dream that the partisans of party politics would carry matters so far. Little...
...CRIMSON, trying to prove to us? He "agrees . . . . in condemning lynching, but asks any man what he would have done were he a resident of an ordinarily well-conducted and prosperous community in which such crimes had been perpetrated." If this implies anything more than a mere thirst for information, which can easily be gratified by asking any man verbally, it implies that lynching is the only possibility; that the said resident has no way open to him of improving the legal and police administration of his city save that of defying both. This is, of course, conceivable. The electorate...