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...major national problem these foreigners in our midst will loom in importance, as war problems fade. This task, indeed, will be the central one of reconstruction. No man knew this fact better nor preached its needs more consistently than Theodore Roosevelt. His recommendation should be our guarantee of its importance...
...great and little of the nation--of all nations--are of perfect sincerity, and sometimes of a degree of emotion that almost chokes their utterance, but all are inadequate, all seem commonplace in the light of his own greatness, which has not died with him, which cannot fade from the earth, and which will, with time, inspire our orators and our poets to their highest flights...
Though America has sustained an irreparable loss in Lufbery's death, there is in it an inspiration that can never fade out. The memory of this great warrior, struck in the moment of victory, will put some of his spirit into the efforts of our ever-increasing flock of sky fighters. We need have no fear that the first American Ace will not be amply avenged...
...over three years now, but Teutonic organization has made their game a slow one. This year, of all times, with the United States working in accord with these undaunted Allies, may their aims be realized. We have heard of Austrain discontent and German mutiny, but these thin rumors fade into insignificance beside those words of the Emperor of the Germans. Coming from him, they are more reassuring than many bellowings of his people. Official word is had that the Magnifico of Potsdam sees the possibility of the beginning of the end. It is far from a certainty, but that William...
...memory, studying the conditions under which man remembers and forgets. Some of the results were very queer. We found that the mind does not hold or lose its memory ideas in a mechanical way, but that everything depends upon purposes; ideas which are gathered with a certain aim quickly fade away when the motive is no longer effective. Hence our memories with all the feelings and emotions attached to them are constantly controlled by hidden powers; they really disappear when new motives enter the soul...