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...change in the early nineties, when it was suddenly discovered that the owners of the newspapers were the masters, that the editor was only a man who was hired and that the owner of a great newspaper was in a position to exert influence over government affairs. The old function of the editor disappeared. He became the servant of the owner, paid far more, writing far worse and not writing what he sincerely believed...
...delight of humanitarians. In this new and aspiring venture of idealism and art, the musicians-the actual workers-will divide among themselves the deficit. They will no longer permit the rich and aloof to lose money on orchestras. The fiddlers and trombonists themselves will take over this exalted function as their just and well-earned due. Will they be content to remain wage-slaves at union rates? Not they. They will divide the box office receipts among themselves, and the fact that such a division will make mighty small wages for them will merely in- crease their elation. Beneath this...
...sound mind; the appreciation of the dignity of labor and the happiness of industry; self-mastery, self-control; the appreciation of the benefits of our institutions and our obligations to them, and of the other man's point of view. Another essential factor is the spiritual, which is the function of the home and the family...
Reformers propose that any book or play having an objectionable passage shall fall within the prohibition; also, that the jury's function shall be be curtailed...
...body so interesting and puzzling that they made of it an object of worship; modern pagans like Walt Whitman claim that such an attitude is most natural. At all events, however carefully scientists have recorded facts about the body, when someone claims for it a new and more wonderful function, all known facts are brushed aside in the mad rush of unreasoning worship...