Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 204
... reforms whose fame now fills the land with Temperance , Anti - Slavery , Non - Resistance , No Government , Equal Labor , fair and generous as each appears , are poor bitter things when prose- cuted for themselves as an end . To every ...
... reforms whose fame now fills the land with Temperance , Anti - Slavery , Non - Resistance , No Government , Equal Labor , fair and generous as each appears , are poor bitter things when prose- cuted for themselves as an end . To every ...
Page 219
... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
Page 225
... reform in all these institutions , their abuses will be redressed , and the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor , and a man may se- lect the fittest employment for his peculiar talent again ...
... reform in all these institutions , their abuses will be redressed , and the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor , and a man may se- lect the fittest employment for his peculiar talent again ...
Page 237
... reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man , which will appear at the call of worth , and that all particular reforms are the removing of some impediment . Is it not the highest duty that man should be honored ...
... reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man , which will appear at the call of worth , and that all particular reforms are the removing of some impediment . Is it not the highest duty that man should be honored ...
Page 248
... Reform , and offers the sentiment of . Love as an overmatch to this material might . I wish to consider well this affirmative side , which has a loftier port and reason than heretofore , which 248 LECTURE ON THE TIMES .
... Reform , and offers the sentiment of . Love as an overmatch to this material might . I wish to consider well this affirmative side , which has a loftier port and reason than heretofore , which 248 LECTURE ON THE TIMES .
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