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...Government interference is harmful. a. It increases the popular prejudice against co-operatives; No. Amer. Rev. Vol. 147, p. 76. b. It tends to perpetuate the evils of competition. c. It takes away the means of defence of the employers against combinations of labor; Cong. Record; 6393. d. It tends to present the general adoption of the best appliances...
Valuable also are Minister Romero's concluding article on the Pan-American Conference and E. L. Godkin's "Key to Municipal Reform." Michael Davitt discusses the tendencies of labor in Great Britain; ex-President. White of Cornell adds an article to the much debated question of higher instruction in America and the future of the second-class "Universities" with which the country is surfeited. John Burroughs leaves his country scenes to talk of "Faith" and "Credullty." Madame A dam and G. P. A. Healey gossip about subjects with which they are respectively less and more familiar; while Professor Shaler...
Material and labor, boats and house...
...human life we have Instinct, Enduring Courage and Contemplative Insight. With the help of this last reflective curiosity we study ourselves and our neighbors. So the historical office of philosophers has always been to reward the instincts of their own age. And his labor is not in vain because truth is so many sided that all these various thinkers, representing each so many different views may all see the truth alike, but from different sides...
...high desires, noble discontents and ambitions in you. You know that they are there. But is not the dissatisfaction of your whole life this, that it is not they that get your most devoted thought and eager action? It is "the meat which perisheth" for which you really labor. It is the prize of the moment that sets you all astir, with desire, with indignation, with hope, with fear. All the time off there in the distance on its shrine shines pure and white the real ultimate desire of your nature, adored and treasured, but too far away and cold...