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Rapid in style as a circus poster, with about the same literary value; sound in doctrine because it is concerned with the concrete thing, the life of Christ, instead of the cloudy figuration, Christianity; unsound because it is totally uncritical, this book is an earnest attempt by Mr. Barton to make Christ in his own image...
...this is true, not only of opinions about public matters, but also about what is right, just, honorable and generous in personal conduct. As a rule, indeed, public morals are built upon private morals, and a stable commonwealth does not stand upon an unsound moral foundation. Let us repeat, therefore, that morals, public and private, depend upon opinion. The morality of a people is sustained by a general opinion of its rightfulness, and a general condemnation of its violation. All men sometimes do, and a few men often do what they know to be wrong; but even so they usually...
...divided against itself. The administrative policy and the teaching system must undergo certain changes to answer the cry of men within the University for a more liberal type of education and for a voice in directing it. There are many sources of attack upon the present system. Some are unsound and easily disposed of; others are based on thoughtful consideration and merit action on their proposed demands...
...theoretically balanced her budgets by crediting payments from Germany that were never made. The present budget is following a precedent, not creating one. The point is somewhat academic. Germany, no one doubts it, will pay; nevertheless, the principle of crediting money before it has been received is obviously unsound. Critics of the Minister of Finance repeated the well-known proverb : "Don't count your chickens before they are hatched...
This tone of sophistication now apparently so much the mode is better carried out in the editorials, especially the first, which explains the designation of the Freshman number as primarily mercenary: In "Kismet and Advice" too there is something genial in the bantering tone, something genuine, however unsound, in the philosophy. After all it is the function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point...