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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your article reprinting the article concerning me in the October Mercury and printed in TIME, Oct. 4, p. 23 ? It may be that some newspaper men are not willing to put themselves in my hands but you imply by suggestion that newspaper men do not trust my word. I do not believe that you will find any newspaper men who question the accuracy of any statement that I make to them. I regret that the method you have used in quoting the article gives that impression...
...greatly surprised that amid all the congratulatory speeches made in honor of Cobham's wonderful achievement, not one word was uttered expressing thanks to God for His share in enabling so wonderful a performance. There was not one representative of the Church present, nor anything to denote that the British public or authorities recognize that without God's help every human endeavor would always come to nought...
...inevitable and comparatively insignificant incident resulting from our false hypothesis of conduct:" This is what the "conchy" brother and all the rest of his kind were saying before the fight began, and it is an opinion that the world in general is just beginning to sceptically examine. In a word it is the verdict against nationalism and its attendant evils of patriotism and imperialism that, one may risk saying, may have reached their climax in the late...
...title-page of this book must have presented difficulties. "English Version" of course signifies "translation"--Wendell's translation of a ninth-century narrative of Eginhard "with the constant aid of Teulet's French version." The word "Translation" in the title does not even signify the wafting of two saints from earth to heaven, but the theft of their bones from the Roman tomb in which they were interred, their stealthy removal from the Holy City, and the adventures of the pious thieves in their conveying of these relics to a church not far from the court of Charlemagne...
This decision is in strong contrast to the custom of most of our modern writers. They feel called, by some great power, to produce voluminously; and they feel pledged to publish voluminously. Every thought which their minds conceive, every word which their facile pens write, must be perpetuated in print. They are writing literature which the public should have. Even after their death, their heirs gather up the last scraps of paper and edit them, so that the world may have all that the authors wrote...