Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noble initiative of the President of the United States, the good judgment of the peoples of Peru and Chile and the wisdom of their rulers made it possible to find in President Harding first, and in President Coolidge afterward, an artisan who should repair the broken link by laying down rules for carrying out the only unfullfilled clause of the treaty which sealed peace after four years of war. He, having agreed to be our arbitrator, gave us those rules, and it was resolved that under his Excellency's wise, masterly guidance we should form a commission to supervise...
...Starr?Holt ($4.00). "Exemplary biography." Sound phrase. Aged and middle-aged Yale men, sipping coffee and nursing cigars, go back to William Graham Sumner, professor at Yale of political and social science, as to a hero of their youth. They declare there was hone like him for forthrightness, wisdom, integrity.* They say the "grand manner," the strong individualism of which he was such an exemplar, is gone out of college professors in these days of alumni control, teaching unions, mass education. Survivors of Yale '83, for instance, recall how they were circularized their senior year with copies...
...York Times commented philosophically on the wisdom of the "things we do against reason," noted that the ants and bees...
...divine sphere, which appears in the spiritual world as a sun, and from this spiritual sun again proceeds the sun of the natural world. In God there are three infinite "degrees" of being, and in man and all things corresponding, three finite and created degrees. They are love, wisdom, use; or end, cause, and effect. The final ends of all things are in the Divine Mind; the causes of all things are in the spiritual world, and their effects in the natural world...
...Love, wisdom, use: end, cause, effect...