Word: soberly
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...accordingly diabolical. Yet the fact is that the pessimist simply believes that more misery than happiness exists in the world. The optimist holds the opposite. Everyone grants that an optimist who writes pessimistically should be condemned for insincerity. But few seem to realize that if a man's most sober and honest thought is pessimistic, as it often is, he would do wrong to write optimistically. Both argue that you must shape your course according to the weightiest facts of existence; one holds that misery is the great fact of life; the other, that happiness is. Each is in duty...
...shows a change in the character of Socialism. From being mere cries for freedom and other abstractions, it has become now a system of definite working organizations. There is still the old cry for equality of rights and privileges (not for absolute equality of property); but Socialism's most sober aim is the preservation of all variety in talent, ability, etc. Inheritance is opposed, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, encouraging quarrels, and idleness, and vice. Let every man have what he earns, no more. Society should not be based on money...
...revolutionary type is a growth from early German philosophy. The early leaders of socialism were students of Hegel. They had no desire for revolution, but wished all to come about by evolution. Socialists in general are not revolutionary in their sober theories, but under severe legislation or financial crises the great present evil makes them cry for immediate change. Socialism in its just demands can be met by us only gradually, and with the spirit of sacrifice...
...advisable that the affairs of the institution be administered by the faculties or by a board representing them, shall not laws be passed which will confer the necessary powers and make the governing body, whatever it may be, responsible for their exercise? These questions are surely worthy of sober, serious consideration...
...advanced by men who are obliged to devote part of their time to "match peddling," and to such occupations as telegraph messengers, "itinerant musicians," etc. They can really accomplish very little, and their beggary brings into disrepute the professions they are studying. This state of things on its sober side is indeed a pitiable one. Thousands of almost absolute paupers, men of the most ordinary attainments and without a suitable early education at home, come up every year from the provinces to Berlin and Vienna...