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...Chief Justice. Nobody has not away from us and nobody cannot. "This is the oath of thousands and uiousands that will fight to death. The French spirit never die-as to tell you again, if you, your judge and Chief Justice will execute Sacco-Vanzetti, we going to destroy all of your fellows...
...considers the Kaffirs. These, a brown Northern people who conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy. At the heart of the mat- ter Author Millin feels that: "The black man is not so different from, as he is inferior to, the white man." For him, she tacitly observes, there is no hope...
That Edna St. Vincent Millay does not destroy the illusion which her henchmen and harpweavers have created is small compensation for the fact that Mr. Mencken resembles a well-fed lodge-member. Colonel Lawrence's profile is sufficiently romantic, Ring Lardner's face is tinged with the traditional gloom of the comedian, and Sherwood Anderson, fortunately, gives an impression not incongruous with his writing. But these are exceptions. They cannot counterbalance D. H. Lawrence's beard nor Ford Maddox Ford's chins. And all the world now knows that the authority on behaviorism in blondes is herself a jet brunette...
...breaking it to pieces, which was secession. The other, and equally dangerous, is to destroy the component parts by building up at the centre a great federal bureaucracy to care for every detail of local and State administration and life...
...exceptions dwindle. Nothing is so destructive as quibbling over a subject whose nature is as dignified as inartificial--and as intangible--as is this. There is something greater and finer than quarrels as to place, plans and particulars--and no reasoning that such quarrels are necessary for perfection can destroy the basic truth of this statement...