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...these days, said Dr. Hyde, we cannot conquer evil by epicurianism or by stoic unconsciousness. Mere animals, it is true, are innocent of moral evil, and so are those who seek to destroy evil by animalism. Many have written foolish novels trying to prove this, Walt Whitman being among those who have done...
...Leighton Parks closed the services with a few remarks on the passage: "I come not to destroy but to fulfill." Many men come to Harvard and find that the very things they were taught to respect are scoffed at. It may seem to some that religion had come to an end. One man wraps his religion in the napkin of orthodoxy and will not have it touched or made more effective for fear of losing it entirely, while another flings it away and says: "Harvard destroyed my religion...
...Trusts are an economic evil. - (a) Limit natural production: Nation, vol. 49, p. 186 (Sept., 1889). - (b) Destroy competition. - (1) Absorb all large producers. - (2) Crush smaller rivals; Pop-Science Monthly, vol. 34, p. 19 (Mar., 1889). - (c) Raise prices...
...Various other schemes are inadequate. - (a) Surface roads. - (1) Do not eliminate danger. - (2) Do not relieve congestion. - (3) Entail great expense. - i. e. Street widening. - (b) Elevated roads undesirable in region of subway. - (1) Injure and destroy property. - (2) Do not abolish grade crossings of tracks. - (3) Not adapted to narrow, winding streets...
...clamor dinned its claims in one ear, while Congress turned the other to the gentle suggestions of the beer combine. The law is unjustifiable because of its radical defects. The special deductions allowed open wide the doors of evasion, and this and the high rate of exemption will largely destroy its value as a revenue measure...