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...familiar with the parable of the talents, and how the man with one talent who failed to use it was condemned and cast into outer darkness. Sometimes one can wish that the story had been differently told, that it had been the man with five talents who had neglected to use them to the fullest extent, and had therefore been condemned, for to whom much has been committed of him will be required the more. Duties he upon a man according to his power for good and evil. Those who can do only little must do that little, and great...
Unquestionablyit is the orderly chronicling of events that underlies al history. But interwoven must be color and life or the events will lose their relative importance or fail to stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed...
...meantime, Los Angeles,--always careful not to neglect a chance to bring itself forward,--has made a bid for the games, with an offer to pay all the expenses of all the teams over and back and provide training quarters and entertainment as well. The international committee now in Paris is deciding the question. If Los Angeles gets the games, there will be more wailing and parading of French was sufferings than arises whenever the German war debt is mentioned. Yet France is not sure she wants the games, largely from a fear that she won't be able...
...ever occupied a lower place in the respect of men. . . . He figures with the starving children of Russia in appeals to the charitable as a object of pity. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed but the shepherd also looks up from his pit of poverty and neglect, as hungry as the sheep, hungry for the bare necessities of animal life...
When asked if he believed that an educational test for voters would remedy the present defects, he stated that such a measure would be out of the question. He again emphasized the part that the trouble was not with the voting system, but with the sheer neglect of many of the educated citizens either to take an active interest in politics or to perform the simple task of casting their vote. "The college man owes a special duty to the country for his education, which he pays in time of war, but not in times of peace...