Word: thought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...planet, to be scientifically investigated and discussed, but never to be partaken? Who is there who trusts to the Monroe doctrine the wide sea, and the inherited flintlock over the fireplace, to keep us from the ambitions and intrigues of martial peoples? Who is there who thinks as he thought before, and as previous generations have thought before during all our national life? Who indeed, save a Senator from Wisconsin, and an anarchistic leader, and a well-known newspaper man who is not without influence, who uses the whole power of his press to instill discord into our people...
...rated high, too, in the medical world, and gained note through his original thought and research work. A few years ago he made an important trip into Yucatan, Central America, in connection with his medical investigations, specializing in ethnology...
...gone up to still those who do not believe as the nation believes. If the thought of such men is ill, then let their thought be obliterated, for we have enough of sickly thought. If the thought of such men is irreconcilable from the eternal desire of egoism to be individual, then let their thought be obliterated, for we have enough of egoisms which are mad with the consciousness of themselves. But if the thought of such men is strong and clear, however strange it may seem to us, let us not dare, for the very fear of truth that...
...tell you what men have been. We are a character upon the written page which the moving finger writes. And when the living year has gone its way, not much will be left of all those who acted their brave part so well, save a short memory and a thought...
...this time we must keep hold of our prospective. Our culture, which is the total of man's thought during dark centuries of confusion and terror, remains beyond this war, beyond a hundred cycles of wars. When it is gone, there is nothing...