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...comes a new and more ingenious suggestion for making morality a commodity of wholesale consumption. The element of force is still predominant in this twentieth century attempt to bring about the reign of virtue, but the force instead of being externally applied, as through law, is to be internally administered by means of education. The proposal in its concrete form, is a bill introduced in to the Nebraska State Legislature, by State Senator Allen S. Stinson, a former school teacher, providing for courses in "common honesty, morality, courtesy, obedience to law, respect to the flag, respect for parents...
...think that religion in some form is a necessary element of life for the individual and the community? Yes, 858; no, 132; undecided...
...feat in 1905, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914. At the conclusion of the 1914 campaign, he found that his winning habits had had a deadening, unprofitable effect on his public. Philadelphians were sure that Mack's team would win; were spending their money to witness sports in which the element of chance was more noticeable...
Observers recalled the very notable liberalism of the present day Austrian Republic, a state of public opinion which keeps the So- cialists overwhelmingly in power, though the Roman Catholic element among them has effectually blocked the emergence of anything resembling Communism...
...little skill with words, he gets his effects with pa- tience and a hammer. To his famed Sorrel and Son he attached a long-burning fuse and its sale now exceeds 100,000. This latest book is interesting if only because it too may contain that element, for critics still undefined, which gives a book enormous popular appeal...