Word: functions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tuesday, January 19.- The Function of the Modern Secondary School...
...change in existing political conditions. The United States now realizes the conditions necessary to a cabinet government, that is, two great national parties and faithful adherence to party lines. Finally, that this position is not radical in that it preserved the distinction between the executive, legislative and judicial function of the government. In addition, it brings about a close co-operation between executive and legislative departments and the consequent advantages...
...consent from the States, thus denying their sovereignty.- B. It is a direct step towards centralization.- (1) Begins to deal-with the people as individuals, not as States.- (2) Tends to increase the reliance of the individual on the government.- (a) Nurtures the idea that it is a government function to foster business and supply prosperity. (3) Though it may be said that a successful centralized government is possible in so large a country, yet the experience of France invalidates the argument. (Journal of Politics...
...food on the prairie, the wood in the forest, all have to be made serviceable through commerce. The function of the merchant should be, not to make money, but to serve his fellows by furnishing them the necessaries of life. Every transaction is to be measured by this test. The only way in which a self-respecting man can acquire property is through his brain or his brawn. The desire to get something for nothing is in itself dishonest...
...things the function of man is to serve his fellows. The function of the poet and the writer is to give humanity ideals worth the having. The realism which simply tells us what life is not a worthy, because not a serving form of literature. The true preacher is he who has the right spirit and the power to impart it to others...