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...nations. It has long been advocated by sincere well-wishers of popular representative government, notably John Stuart Mill, who was fully aware to its value 60 or 70 years ago. It found acceptance first in other English speaking countries, notably Australia. What has stood most seriously in its path in this country has been the fear that, in spite of the actual simplicity of the voting, it would look too complicated to American voters. This fear has been dispelled by actual experience. Spreading from smaller cities, the great city of Cleveland with an 800,000 population adopted...
...Lita's mother often suggested to me that I marry Lita and I said I would love to if only we could have children. Mrs. Grey deliberately and continuously put Lita in my path...
...openly philosophic; only his Viennese delicacy and finesse have saved him from the bogs and fogs which beset most German writers. He pictures a group of people, the life of whom is calm and ordered; but somewhere in this group there is the ferment of evil. In the path of each little insignificant wrong, punishment subtly folows sin. Nemesis pursues Man--Oedipus, Christian Wahnschaffe--, Man, who must act and yet knows not how, lost in a world in which ignorance is no excuse for criminality. Destruction is swift cutting down even the most innocent; the entire group is brought...
...despatched his bosom friend, centuries ago, to seek out the Thane of Devon, to bring back word whether the Thane's daughter is really as fair as tradition would have her. On All Hallows' Eve the ambassador beholds the beauty stealing timidly over the moor, her path lighted by a single torch, to test the superstition that thus a maiden may catch a magical glimpse of her future husband. The torchlight falls upon the messenger. He, then, is the man. But the royal will is stern. So runs the plot of the opera. The music, more important...
...Imperial father had always near his heart a reign of right and justice, and made it his constant aim to follow and brighten the path laid by his predecessor. . . . He has now passed away amidst our unbounded grief and sorrow. . . . Mournful and heavyhearted, we have now succeeded, to the Imperial line. With our limited gifts, we are mindful of the difficulty of proving ourselves equal to the great task devolved upon...