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...license, it becomes an avalanche and temporarily overwhelms its oppressors. Like an avalanche, however, it possesses no constructive power and when the old forces that for the time being have become subterranean, force their way again to the surface, the process is repeated. It is true that there is progress but it is not so rapid as we should have reason to expect...
...variety of public utilities such as water supply; it is the proposed extension of the principle upon a scale of portentous magnitude that gives the issue its engrossing interest. The proposition is in itself characteristic of the age, for whether it be regarded as a real factor in the progress of civilization or only the mistaken dream of impracticable visionaries, it is entitled to the credit of a gentle birth. It is one of the phenomena of the groping fraternalism that has so markedly characterized the civilization of the last half century. This question cannot be arbitrarily dismissed...
...human will is the instrument of the motive and purpose is its outgrowth. Good desires are the raw measures from which purpose is created; the measures of human capacity for desires that are changed into the realization of character are replaced by new desires and so spiritual progress is achieved...
...live in a constant condition of mental change, not always mental progress, but if the desire back of the change is good the upward striving in its reaction on the mind is bound to have a good effect on character. Will power is more enduring and capable of achievement than the power of the tides them selves. Too often we confound wishing and willing, but wishing ends in nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough...
...will doubtless be impossible to bring this organization at once into a position as strong as that of the Cosmopolitan Club of Cornell. The inertia of a new idea will operate to retard its progress, as well as the absorption of the natural leaders of such a move by other interests. But, if started, this society should not occupy the position of numerous other bodies which have monthly smokers as the only excuse for their existence. It should be so conducted that newly-arrived foreigners will feel that an active interest is felt in them by more than the College...