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...this done and learned, life still lay flat and unpalatable on Swedenborg's tongue. He sought, like Paracelsus, the infinite and the spiritual ; and neither geometrical, nor physical, nor metaphysical principles led him to them. But they must be found. And so to work on a new path. Then, in 1745, "heaven was opened to him" by direct spiritual revelation from...
...clearheaded, but she lacks imagination and the magnetism that all really great leaders must have. Her appeal is to the mind and not to the heart and the mind is slow to work when the heart is cold. Jane Addams sees a century ahead, and she sees a clear path to the light for which we are groping-but she sees but one path. If we won't take that path, she walks on alone and leaves us to wander along as best...
...fireside, the bulwark of good citizenship, is left in charge of the cat and canary. "Can we wonder that our children go wrong? Petted, pampered, educated at the expense of the State, robbed of self-reliance and independence, we send them forth as weaklings to take up the rugged path of life for themselves...
...read" for honours in Modern History. Once admitted to the university, he faces two sets of examinations, one about half-way through his three-year course, the other at the end. The first set, or "History Previous" is comparatively easy, and serves to keep the student in the proper path and to hold him up to his modern language requirement. The final examinations, most of three hours, on English political history, English constitutional history, a period of general history since 285, political science, economic history, and a minute special field, such as the Age of Hildebrand. There is also...
...with an optimistic eye, imitated that time-honored English practice of writing to The Times by penning a letter to The New York Times. In a considerable amount of language he made the following points, confirming Mr. Smith's own statements: Hungary, led gently in the right financial path by Jeremiah Smith . . . seems more contented with her economic lot than appeared possible a year or so ago. Her budget is in order and she is not drawing on League of Nations' funds for current expenses. . . . There have been rumors that part of the League's financial support...