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Independent action means that a man shall exercise his own judgment as to candidates and principles. Thus only can he aid his country's progress, and of the great influence which he may then exert, the success of independent action in the abolition question is sufflcient proof...
...arts." The characteristics of such persons, it is true, do not in all respects conform to the ideas of the polite world, which is thus led to judge of them harshly; but though there may be, and undoubtedly are, individuals in Bohemia who deserve such harshness, yet a judgment against all for the faults of the few, would be far from just. It must be acknowledged that with their occasional badness and their general dirtiness, the Bohemians as a class are delightfully friendly, sociable and hospitable...
DANTE PRIZE.Three essays for the Dante Prize for 1893 were handed in. The committee of the Dante Society on the awarding of the prize find no one of the essays worthy, in their judgment, of the Latham prize, which was the only one offered this year. They commend, nevertheless, the essays by "G. del Fabro" and "Thomas Alwood"- the one for the form in which the author has set forth his matter, the other for the evidences of research displayed...
...test. It is very different when a lecturer deals with contemporary work; here there has been no test of time and not much can be foretold about the future of the works; there is no certainty, nothing sure to build upon. Under these circumstances a lecturer cannot express the judgment of generations, but can only give a personal opionion. Thus interest in the present is often crowded out by reverence for the past. Yet the present has its place even in study and any course or lecture on the present has its value. Mr. Copeland's lecture will cover neglected...
Eacn man filled his position with fine judgment...