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These are lively days for the triumphant Mr. Tunney--first Bernard Shaw and now the New York police force, neither of which is easily ignored. The beau ideal of the Marines turned, as champions and ex-champions always have turned, to the vaudeville stage where he was scheduled to give "fistic exhibitions". But when he attempted to appear the first night, at one of the Loew palaces in New York, he was arrested for breaking a statute against boxing. Brute strength had to yield to respect for legal restrictions and the philosopher of the gloves was forced to remain...
...mysticism, are assigned various parts. The players include-besides several German savants little known in the U. S. -Havelock Ellis, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Frobenius, Jakob Wassermann, C. G. Jung, Alfred Adler, Beatrice Hinkle. Some of the titles on their scores are: "The Genesis of Marriage," "The Indian Ideal," "The Chinese Conception," "Bourgeois Marriage," "The Marriage of the Future," "Marriage as a Task," "Love as an Art," "Marriage as a Fetter," "Marriage as a Sacrament." All these improvisations follow a baton wielded with profoundly elaborate care by Count Keyserling in the overture chapter: "The Correct Statement of the Marriage Problem...
Marriage is not an ideal, no formula for "happiness." It constitutes a specific state with a significance and laws of its own. It is essentially tragic, in that it is incapable of solution. It is inevitably destructive to some degree of the individualities of man and wife, but Since it depends upon their retaining their individuality and brings into play their supra-personal (unselfish) capacities, it is creative of a higher order of individuals...
...Filipino politicians for their own selfish ends. In the second place, nearly every one of the leaders who have advocated it in public admit that in private that they do not believe the time has yet come for the Americans to withdraw completely from the Islands. Their secret ideal is for complete independence under the protecting arm of the United States, with the right to call on us for unlimited funds to experiment with government and business, and with the expectation that in the event of danger of external aggression our might will protect them...
Ulrich on Hutten was one of those men who formed the bridge between the Humanists and the Reformers of the early sixteenth century. He was a strange sort of a man, a genius with a Faustian passion for knowledge, a poet with a high ideal of a knightly national regeneration, whose golden dreams were yet all strongly fated to turn to dust and ashes. Buffeted about during his short and stormy life, diseased and almost friendless, he possessed at his death only the clothes on his back, a bundle of letters and the pen which had won him a place...