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...without coercion, without force, without any interference with the sovereignity or full independence and freedom of action of any of its members; working not for any selfish interests, but for the establishment of better and more brotherly relations between the nations, and for the establishment of peace upon the earth. That is the idea of the League...
Barnum's patriotism, loud and strong, served him as a financial asset. His personal piety befriended church and circus. Clergymen not only used free tickets, which Barnum sent them for " The Greatest Moral Show on Earth," but they brought Barnum's name into the pulpit...
...sweeping away all the influences of past ages and everything which they themselves had not discovered or produced. His conclusion was that in such a case: "A race with ten times the intellect, twenty times the powers, and fifty times the virtues of any race that ever lived on earth would end within a generation in a state of hopeless barbarism; the earth would return to the days of primeval forests and swamps, and man descend almost to the level of the monkey and the beaver." And he adds: "Now if . . . we are so deeply indebted and so indissolubly bound...
...subject matter of the course will be living things and their environment, the treatment including briefly a consideration of the stellar universe, the solar system, and the earth as a habitation for life, as well as the detailed study of plants and animals. Because of the availability of living specimens in the fall, the Zoology of the course will first be taken up and will be followed in natural sequence by Astronomy, Geology and Botany...
...Rider Haggard know that to read any of the fifty-odd mystery romances that have flowed from his prolific pen, one must leave the commonplace life of the unemotional occident and journey through strange lands and among strange peoples. Nor may one even be sure of remaining upon this earth, for not infrequently Haggard's pen guides us to other planets--even to distant stars. Still less is one bound by the fetters of time, for Haggard's belief (whether real or assumed) in the doctrine of re-incarnation enables his romances to extend throughout centuries...