Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Born about 1858 in Minnesota, the home of the Sioux, Dr. Eastman spent the first fifteen years of his life with his native tribe, where he never heard a word of English, and was taught to hate and distrust the white men. Later he went to school and college. He attended Beloit and Knox Colleges and is a graduate of Dartmouth and of Boston University. For the last fifteen years he has been a physician, a missionary, and a writer, and is a speaker of wide experience. Among his books are "Indian Boyhood," and "Red Hunters and Animal People...
...notable speech President Eliot spoke of freedom as the condition necessary to the progress of society, and pointed out its dangers and its opportunities in college life. A striking phenomenon of our day, he said, is the distrust of freedom that is manifesting itself in all walks of life. It is especially manifest in our educational institutions, for there is no moment when a young man is in a position of more freedom than when he leaves home and enters College. He can use or abuse that freedom, he can use it for good or bad purposes. It is there...
...struggle in France, and in nearly all continental Europe, between democracy and Christianity. In France, democracy came from the French Revolution, which had its origin in the philosophy of the eighteenth century. The disciples of the philosophers and the leaders of the French Revolution, or their successors, had a distrust for Christianity and considered the Christian churches, and the Catholic church in particular, as obstacles to the new ideas and a political invention to keep the people in servitude...
...find rest for your should." These words were spoken in a time when the kingdom of Judah, threatened with invasion from Babylon, was torn within itself by adverse theories, by doubt, by hesitation, by the impulse at one moment to follow any leader and at the next the cynical distrust of all. then the prophet came to the nation, halting as it were at crossroad, with his counsel to deliberate among the old ways and choose the one experience had pointed out as best...
...shows the weight of numbers to be on a higher grade of labor. This form of table is now used in the United States, in Federal and State census; and also in England and various continental countries. It does not eliminate the use of the "average" which many statisticians distrust; but the average becomes valuable when used over a term of years since it indicates the variations in the earning capacity of labor...