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...colonel, has the impressive bearing, the stubborn will, and the military self-righteousness of the typical Prussian officer as if he had spent his entire life in the Kaiser's army. The realism of this old gentleman's character may be somewhat difficult for the American of today to grasp. Gis concept of absolute paternal rule, his narrow, strict moral sense is, to be sure, not an every day sight among the present inhabitants of this country. But there is certainly no American living who need search further than a Methodist grandparent or a German neighbor for first hand evidence...
Protestants, viewing these points of variance with alarm, wonder how Governor Smith will grasp the horns of the dilemma. New York Democrats are confident; they have seen him discharge the public trusts for 25 years...
Before the Young Turk era it would have been as unthinkable for men to sit under women teachers as for U. S. college students to find their professors replaced by puppy dogs. The mind reels, and all but refuses to grasp that Young Turkey is following the Ghazi in a program as "revolutionary" as though President Coolidge should suddenly demand the nationalization of the railways, and hurry on from that, in a few months, to abolition of private property...
...worthwhileness. The only possible cause of suicide for the sane human being is that values have lost their meaning for him. When his mental acuteness is being sharpened in the process of education, he becomes gradually more conscious with his increasing introspective powers, of his own failure to grasp any significance in life which will make it seem worthwhile to him. Hence the catastrophe of self-destruction. The man whose mind has not been so highly developed may go through life with the vague feeling that he is missing something, but he rarely becomes so fully aware of this vital...
...remained standing before him like a pillar, cleaving the distant fog, and toward that pillar he would have to wander involuntarily and almost unconsciously." Laudin comes into contact with Louise Dercum, a famous actres, in whose personality seems to be mirrored all life; through her he attempts to grasp an answer to this "Why," but in the end finds only unconsciousness and nothingness. He goes home. On the other side of a door is his wife Pia, who had become absorbed in her duties, in things and whom he had somewhere lost upon the way. "Perhaps he would have felt...