Word: true
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...infidel, educate his heart and you make him a fanatic, educate both together and you get the perfect man." Perhaps it is too much to say that this process will "get the perfect man," but it will get a better average man than now exists. Especially is this true in the problem of Americanization now before the country. There are infidels and fanatics in the land, and one is as undesirable and dangerous as the other. What is called Bolshevism is the product of too much brain education at the expense of the heart. Bolshevists imagine they are promoting...
...think honestly. Radical reformers are too often filled with so many emotions as altogether to lose sight of the safe and sane. The difference between a genius and a fanatic is the difference between emotion tempered with reason and emotion without the calm which comes from a true education and the proper use of the brain. The world is troubled with an abnormal education of the heart and too little education of the head. A balance should be struck...
...that there was no alternative to taking upon itself the execution of justice, and proudly abiding the consequences. But does Mr. Rosenblatt really think so badly of Omaha's administration, or see in a herd of men that yelp themselves into blood-lust, and then scuttle like rabbits, her true patriots? We ask leave to doubt...
...state government by which they can influence more directly than endowed institutions, the practice, not only of medicine, but of other departments. Many wise people believe that there is a distinct development in the direct state control of the medical practice. I agree with them. If this is true, it is of vital importance that the medical departments of state universities should play an important part in influencing and shaping that development...
Unfortunately it is all too true that in a very great many instances, popular elections throughout the country are only attended by a comparative minority. Smaller issues and candidates for petty positions are almost uniformly neglected by the better class of citizens. Hence there comes into power the crooked alderman and the "gang boss." This latter type could not exist if the voting privilege were universally used...