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...crime of which I am held guilty, or if your moral scruples do not permit you to do as the law you are supposed to administer bids you, please vacate the chair and come over to join me in this stand. I know and understand the British laws and it so far as they are concerned of plead guilty'. Mr. Gandhi added that according to the eternal law of truth he was right in loving his motherland and that if not sentenced he would continue pursuing his policies in the interest of the freedom of his country and the vindication...
...prime requisite, therefore, is to get real leaders--men of wide education and ability, men who can understand the feelings of the various sections of the country and yet have the strength to make up their own minds and draw their parties after them. In fact the foundation of liberal and conservative parties to replace the present system, while easy to talk about, is quite impossible to achieve unless leaders arise of such force of character as to amalgamate them by their own efforts. Roosevelt almost made a Progressive party, but with his death, the party died...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, quondam President of Amherst College, was forced out of that post last Spring (TIME, June 25, July 2), supposedly because of his too-liberal opinions. Whether his opinions are pink, yellow, black or white, it is easy to understand how they can make enemies on account of the manner of their expression. An example of this was furnished last week when Dr. Meiklejohn made an address to the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. His words, if typical, denote a new period in the history of education, as compared to the diction of the Eliots, the Dwights...
...chosen, wisely, to attack his problem from the philosophical standpoint, not, you understand, of abstract, empyrean, philosophy, but of that system and ordering of daily life that is in truth the most immediate concern of the more human letters--the Litterae Humaniores of the Scots Universities. "The Achievement of Greece" is, in fact, a study in the humanities. We cannot ask every man to be a Leonardo da Vinci...
...tell us. Thus a whole section is devoted to their national poverty. It is new, too, to learn of the barrenness of their soil, and its direct results upon the tillers. We are brought most interestingly into contact with a Greek audience at the theatre, and are made to understand from a new point of view the athlete at the Olympic Games. We find many of our new doctrines; some, in fact of our newest, such as the socialization of art and the work of artists, many other forms of socialism and experiments in democracy, tried thoroughly and already judged...