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American philanthropists, men and especially women, should learn to lavish the milk of their human kindness in supplying intellectual nourishment to those Indians on whom the real existence of India depends. Universal diffusion of learning and enlightenment among the people of the land will make India stand on her own...
Lord Bryce, whose dismal prophesies concerning the abilities of American public men have long been accepted with humility, may yet be refuted. The upper hierarchy of officials and representatives begins to shine with intellectual distinction of a sort a condition which would hardly have been tolerated by the electorate of...
The simple people of the Department of the Gard (South France) apparently did not understand the speech, but they were glad to see their dear, smiling "Gastonnet" once more and loudly they cheered him. Said Gastonnet to them, alluding to the Alsace-Lorraine religious dispute: "Long experience has taught me...
"We believe the people of the Nation should continue to own the property and transact the business of the Nation. We harbor no delusions about securing perfection. . . . That system is best which gives the individual the largest freedom of action and the largest opportunity for honorable accomplishment. Such a system...
An eventuality of this sort cannot be too greatly deplored in advance. The main purpose of any university worthy the name is not special training, but the diffusion of a broad, liberal education, and the fostering of an idealistic humanism. Not until everything possible has been done to further the...