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...Chesterton has pointed out in his admirable life of the hardly militaristic Saint Francis, there is no essential contradiction between fighting men, and loving them. To believe that there is, however, erroneous as it may be, is not in itself blameworthy. What is fundamentally wrong with the "peace at any price" doctrine is not that it believes warfare inseparable from hatred and condemns both. It is that it refuses us the right to love anything more than peace. To the mass of men this refusal is, in the fullest sense of the word, damnable Nor can those who would decline...
Doctors disagree on only two subjects: what is wrong with a patient and what cured a patient. The franc, which a month ago seemed beyond medical aid, is now in the convalescent ward. The patient shows a healthy appetite and touched 6.06 cents-the highest point since July...
...ethics, the principles and the conventionalities of business through When an officer of the law makes a personal investment in a corporation which is liable to come before him officially and says that in the safe he lost money by it, a mass of the people acquit him of wrong doing; the straight thinker knows that his error was in making the investment at all losses or gains have nothing to do with the question...
Although the occupants of the motor launch "Class of '92" could not see anything wrong with the steam launch "John Harvard" as the Latter boat lay stranded, in the middle of the Charles, and thought the frantic waving of Coach Newell and the others in a boat a part of some joke, closer inquiry disclosed that the smoke-stack of the steam launch had blown off and sunk to the bottom of the river. The "John Harvard" was no longer able to keep up team, and lay drifting helplessly in the middle of the Charles. The boat was towed back...
...witnesses agreed as to the details of the riot or even as to the nature of the missile. And the "skill" shown by the jury in sifting the evidence of course only made matters worse by introducing technicalities into a mere case of right and wrong...