Word: possessors
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Dates: during 1912-1912
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...found that wealth was valued here for reasons different from those that prevailed in Europe. There it was regarded as cash to be spent for pleasure. Here it was prized for the power it conferred. Power to do what? To do good or harm? to magnify the possessor and crush obstacles to his will, or to promote the progress of the people? That is the question on which the destiny of our nation hangs...
...remembered that the social relations brought about by the new forms of property lie at the basis of most of the intricate problems of modern life, and that the straight path to a righteous solution of those problems lies in a sense of duty on the part of the possessor. It is the habit of the day to decry loudly the iniquity of others, to assume that in attacking them we perform our public duty; that by reforming them we fulfill the moral law. Such an attitude has its value. It corrects gross abuses; but by itself...
...heard some proud possessor of an A.B. degree complain a few months after Commencement how little he really knew of the practical side of life, and how little preparation his four years of liberal education had given him to win out in the competition of the work-a-day world? Perchance to him the graduate of the down-town commercial school has seemed better fitted for the struggle. Again, who has not heard the engineer graduate of some well-known technical school, successful and perhaps well up the ladder in his particular field of mechanics -- electricity, automobiles, or what...