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...Savage took for his text two passages: Hebrews xii, 27 and 28; and Matthew v, 48. He showed that religion, stripped of its ceremonial and reduced to its essence, the effort of man to get into better relations with the Supreme Power, is a permanent element in human life; and that, furthermore, religion, in this abstract sense, is the one distinguishing characteristic of true manhood...
...Legal-tender notes are a dangerous element in the finance of the United States.- (a) Their circulation is rigidamount is fixed by law: Act of May 31, 1878, Statutes at large, XX, 87.- (b) The government ought not to do a banking business.- (1) Government officials have neither personal nor material means to make a fiduciary currency flexible.- (a) Withdrawal would make the gold reserve unnecessary: Carlisle's Speech, in N. Y. Sun, Dec. 3, 1895.- (1) Maintenance of gold reserve has cost us at least $150,000,000 in the last two years.- (d) Whenever government reserve goes down...
...best opportunities with the written equivalents for "make-up," graduated foot-lights and slow music. The other two writers are more simply faithful to human nature. Mr. Barrie's humor is richer than Maclaren's and poor Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums" is a focussing element which adds immensely to the effect of Mr. Barrie's best book. "Ian Maclaren" does not force the pathetic note, but he repeats it too often perhaps within the compass of one volume; and "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush" would have added to its indubitably strong effect with a more frequent...
...hoped that by this rapid succession of short speeches, fourteen in all, the element of rebuttal will be increased. The debate of last year proved, under a similar system, unusually energetic and interesting...
...small measure preference for collective aims over individual ones. It may be a short-sighted view of the matter to think of the high stand man as working for himself, and the athlete as working for his college. Yet it is one which contains a large element of truth; and the honor paid to college athletics is based on a healthful recognition of this half truth which the critic so often overlooks...