Word: likely
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...solutions of the negro problem: -- exportation of the negroes to Liberia, restriction to reservations, and the assimilation of the negro with the white race. All these plans he showed to be visionary and impossible of execution. The negroes came to this country at the invitation of the whites, not like the whites themselves in 1492, "against the protest of the leading citizens of the country;" they have come to stay, and the problem of the negro people must be taken up as involving a people that will be a permanent part of the American population...
...phase of modern civilization and in all respects was far more advanced than the period of the Greek Middle Ages, 1000-700 B. C. which came immediately after it. The Mycenaeans themselves had a long past to build upon and may therefore be called the Ancients of Antiquity, since like our own more modern Ancients of Greece and Rome, they represent the culmination of a long continued upward trend in the affairs of men. Of the Mycenaean art, eminent writers say that through its genius for vivacity in action, it may be called in reality early Greek art; and that...
...trusts. He should, with his associates, endeavor to instil the Christian spirit into every social organism, such especially as the family and the press, not trying to dominate but to inspire them. He should look upon all who are working for the good of the community as being, like himself, ministers of Christ. He should be the friend of all, and bind together in Christian service, first, his own people, and then, as far as possible, all other Christian bodies, and all who have influence amongst their fellow men, in unselfish action, which may reach wider and wider circles...
...seems to me in consideration of the interest which the students have taken in this building, that they ought to have the opportunity of contributing towards its ornamentation. It will be a home for many of them and they would naturally like to feel that they had given some thing towards its completion. They could appropriately provide by subscription for the extra cost of the carving in wood and stone at the Harvard end of the living room, or for any other form of ornament considered necessary by the architect. The plain wainscoting has already been generously provided...
...much a metaphysical as a moral supremacy. The old creeds, if moral interpretation be given them, even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith" like St. Paul, as "Faith which worketh by love," and election as a call to service on behalf of mankind. Even the doctrines of the Council of Trent may be purified by this moralization: the Papacy becomes the assertion of the need of unity: Trans substantiation the change of the 'idea' which makes...