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...There are only two kinds of self renewing governments that we know of today,--the parliamentary and the "dictatorship by the proletariat" type in effect in Russia and so-termed by its members. The first is in discredit and the second has already proved itself to be the upward path...
...these preliminary courses and lectures, likely as dull and incomprehensible as the incomprehensibilities they try to explain. The highest service the explanatory lecture can perform is to accustom the student to the mere mechanics of his surroundings. For introduction to intellectual deeps and desires, there is a better path, namely, the instructor himself. To him who makes plain without making easy, makes colorful without making tawdry makes profound without making involved, initiates will gladly turn. Charles Kingsley's "Let not the sourfaced teach morals lest they create a distaste for virtue", applies also to education, and with unmitigated thoroughness...
...chests. Mountain-dwelling Filipinos donned armor, pounded gongs and descended toward the sea to combat what they believed was a race of planet-devouring crocodiles. But other humans behaved quite otherwise. From the opposite side of the earth they had thronged to put themselves in the shadow's path -astronomers from Holland, England, Italy, from Swarthmore College, U. S. Naval Observatory, Harvard University, Allegheny College and the U. S. Bureau of Standards. They had been on scrupulously selected, lofty sites for weeks in advance, erecting telescopes, fitting cameras, checking advance calculations and even-in the case...
...most mortals, for few men have been more lionized than the peerless conductor of Philadelphia's orchestra. But for Mme. Samaroff, the shock of exciting events began before her birth. A dozen European races mingled to produce her, and she was born in San Antonio, Tex. Thence her path has been paved with incidents, even to the prospect of pronouncing upon her divorced husband's orchestral reading as he leads an orchestra to which her present employer, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, and his son-in-law, Edward W. Bok, have been the chief lay contributors...
...comic interlude Balaam appears belaboring his ass, which balks at the shining angel in his path. The High Priest was also intended as a comic figure. In scorn and derision he listens to the prophecies, laughs raucously at Saint Augustine's chant, and harangues his Jewish followers. He contrasts grotesquely with the sober, dignified Augustus who calmly opposes his biblical arguments to the raging High Priest and his followers...