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...weakness of the movement was the adjectness of its worship of all things ancient, in which the mediaeval was forgotten. Dante still was studied nationally in Italy, not as a product of the middle ages but genius standing high and above his period, as he is now apt to be regarded...
...city life, he said, by the power found there to build up a world for oneself out of nature. All living things build themselves up out of their surroundings, but man's world is much greater and more complex than that of any animal. This new world is the product of man's reason. But can man himself be shown to be a natural product? There are arguments which point that way, but we cannot prove that human action is always in accordance with natural laws, and the results of man's action are sometimes so evil that we cannot...
...average product of the United States amounts to $200 a year to each mum, so that nine-tenths of the community must live, on the average, on less than that amount. Statistics show that the average man spends one-half of his income for food. Now if each man wastes five cents a day by bad methods of cooking, etc., the total waste for the United States in one year would amount to twelve million dollars, and the saving of this waste would mean the solving of the whole problem of shelter for the masses...
...Land being a gift of nature and not the product of labor, is the inheritance of men, consequently not a fit subject for private appropriation: its site value is created by society and not by the individual owners: Political Science, Vol. XXXVI, p. 348; Barry. "Moloch of Monopolies," Forum, June 1889; vide "Best general references...
...Peabody Museum has passed through the period of isolation which it has had to undergo as a product of private endowment through the beneficence of Mrs. Thaw. The Semitic Museum contains an interesting nucleus for a valuable collection. Five thousand dollars have been spent on books, manuscripts, inscriptions, photographs, casts, coins, electrotypes, impressions of seals and tablets...