Word: strife
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...civilization different. Japan progressed peacefully and developed a great love of nature, which is shown by the temple architecture. Geographically, Japan is to China as England is to Europe, but Japan and China have always, until lately, lived side by side in peace, while there has been continual strife between England and Europe, which has tended to advance England very swiftly. China is shut off from the rest of the world and has lived a solitary life, which does not tend to advancement. Nor have there been any great movements of peoples, as the crusades, which did so much...
...Japan at this day Buddhism and Christianity have come into deadly combat and no person can predict the result. The combat is rather a friendly discussion of truths than a strife between the upholders of the two religions...
...persecutios. This dominant conviction assumed three different forms,- dogmatic, ritual, or ecclesiastical. It is a well-known fact, however, that none of the three have ever been fully successful. The dogmatical uniformity failed first of all. Even the famous council of Nicea, the first oecumenical council, ended in a strife that effectually split the church...
...children. He now threw the whole force of his character into public affairs. To Dante, peace seemed the best of all things ordained for man's well being. But peace at this time was far from the city of Florence, and Italy. In the midst of confusion and strife Dante lifted up his voice, as one crying in the wilderness, preaching peace. His treatise De Monarchia is not the dry product of the understanding, but the living, inmost thought of a man, whose one object is the welfare of his fellowmen. He believed that truth must be spoken...
...second speaker for Harvard was W. E. Hutton. He took as an example of the probable results of the measure, the condition of affairs in Denmark, where the mere entrance of the ministry in the House had caused incessant strife. He also quoted as examples England and France, and asserted that every popular government had had like experience. The dangers under such a measure would be great and would end in making the President a puppet...