Word: unborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...odious to the selfish and narrow minded, had in mind its effects on future generations. Mr. Leonard speaks of the great test of popular approval but does not seem to be able to look beyond his own nose. Since the primary benefit was expected to accrue to those yet unborn, five years is no test at all. It is up to us to lay aside our appetites and personal desires to an increasing extent as we progress toward the ideal of society, else we shall retrogress or at best stand still...
Lily had made her home in Paris because she had, years ago, refused to marry her first lover, Governor of the State. She had refused to marry him, in spite of the unborn child, because she declined to be the slave of American convention. For was she not the daughter of Old John Shane, pioneer, who could "ride like hell" and in the same manner, fight and love...
...Discrimination exists everywhere. The worst and a common one is that a man can give away his child and take it away from his wife. In some cases he can will away his unborn child...
When a man of genius dies, the world not only regrets the man, but selfishly perhaps, regrets the unborn brain-children which his genius would certainly have brought forth. In Dr. Steinmetz's death, humanity, not merely engineering or science, has suffered a tremendous loss. For eventful as his life has been, his potentialities were limitless, and until the last moment he was engaged in investigations of the utmost value...
...influence that will spread from generation to generation far beyond his sight. Much of the good in our natures has come to us mediately from men and women we never saw, of whom sometimes we have never heard; and any one may do the same for others yet unborn...