Word: workman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appear as labor agitators or Socialists, who believe that the effect of great discoveries and inventions of machinery has provided an injury to working classes as a whole. But the effect of the growth of the factory system and the division of labor was to place the workman at a disadvantage by depriving him of all control over the conditions of his employment. With this change has come the remedy of organization among laborers, for only by organization could workmen bargain on equal terms with capitalist employers. Under the influence of old economic principles, society and all its forces combined...
...worship the infinite through the best that is in the Human, and thus rise form the human to the divin? But in the way of the pilgrim who journeys toward the city of God stands the giant Anthropomorphism. The saying "These cannot be God, because the workman made them," is as true of man's spiritual conceptions as it is of his idols...
...sermon. These words are character and service. These two words, I think, describe the higher regions of man's life in which alone his powers can fulfil themselves and know their real strength and fit themselves for the full doing even of their lower tasks. In them the workman doomed today to lower toils, when he is once allowed to enter, lifts himself up and knows his dignity and begins to put forth the might which he possesses...
Other well-known and interesting contributors are Oswald Ottendorfer, Master-Workman Powderly, Ex-Governor Lowry of Mississippi, Francis Galton, F. R. S., Rev. Lyman Abbott, and Bishop Whipple of Minnesota. The subjects treated by these writers may be very approximately surmised by their names...
George B. Magoun of the freshman class was seriously injured last Monday at his father's country seat at Islip, L. I. His injuries were received by the unexpected explosion of a charge of powder which had been placed in a stump. The powder had been placed by a workman and the fuse lighted. Magoun, thinking the powder had failed to ignite had stooped over the stump with a lighted match for the purpose of lighting the fuse when the explosion took place. Magoun's face was the mark for the flying fragments while his head and arms were frightfully...