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...knows what he wants and how he means to get it is very apt to succeed; and this is not more true of material aims than of higher ones. The object of true religion in every age and every clime has been to search out those things that are of eternal value. Ascetics and mystics have sometimes carried their exaltation so far as to despise the things by which mankind must live, but the great mass of men have erred in the other direction, by seeking only the things of the present. True religion and spiritual wisdom consist in regarding...
...criticism of arbitrary acts of government officials, we cannot see that he has merited such censure as the Attorney General sees fit to give him. The Attorney General admits the truth of the "telegraphic warrant" arrests which have provoked such widespread indignation against his Department. And in regard to search and seizure of documents, he declares that search warrants were secured "in every instance practicable." We had thought that the Constitution rather required such warrants in every case, regardless of whether or not officials considered it "practicable." And with regard to the alleged use of agents provocateurs by the Department...
...help the Irish, we strongly recommend them to think a second time. If, however, they merely wish to enjoy a little harmless fun by twisting our international relations into an even worse tangle than the present, and to bring on a possible war with Great Britain, they need not search far for better means than this...
...allowed to witness the Braves wallop the Giants of a Spring Sunday from two to five, before we rush madly back to vespers. The legislature must be undergoing a reaction from the arid days of prohibition, and we are again to feel the personal liberty so long lost, in search of which our Pilgrim ancestors came to Massachusetts...
Cicero, after he had become an old man, is said to have remarked that his life had been spent in the search for a conception of ideal beauty which he had not found in any living model. The celebrated orator never had the opportunity to attend a Junior Dance in person! But his plaster bust in the hallway of the Union will have a chance to view the youth and beauty that congregate there tonight. Thus, by some quip of fate, the great Roman, though long dead, still continues his quest. As Gray wrote in his "Elegy," our fires seem...