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Page 75 - Do unto others as you would they should do unto you," is one of the foundations upon which the decree of a court of chancery is based.
Page 64 - As to the proportion of tuberculosis acquired by man through his food or through other means we can form no definite opinion, but we think it probable that an appreciable part of the tuberculosis that affects man is obtained through his food.
Page 215 - GOD, I am travelling out to death's sea, I, who exulted in sunshine and laughter, Thought not of dying — death is such waste of me! — Grant me one prayer: Doom not the hereafter Of mankind to war, as though I had died not — I, who in battle, my comrade's arm linking, Shouted and sang — life in my pulses hot Throbbing and dancing! Let not my sinking In dark be for naught, my death a vain thing! God, let me know it the end of man's fever! Make my last breath a bugle call, carrying Peace o'er...
Page 289 - Count Pourtales has called the Russian Minister's attention in the most serious manner to the fact that nowadays measures of mobilization would be a highly dangerous form of diplomatic pressure. For, in that event, the purely military consideration of the question by the general staffs would find expression, and if that button were once touched in Germany, the situation would get out of control.
Page 129 - Perpetual seclusion in a cell for years, with no communication with his fellows, is an artificial state of existence' so absolutely opposed to that which nature points out as the condition of mental, moral, and physical health...
Page 273 - Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.
Page 159 - on those whom we deprive of liberty let us use all the resources of a humanity and common sense that shall refuse to apply to criminals, methods which would be scouted in the reform of human beings outside prisons.'' An expert professional criminal then free, a man of much native intelligence, said to me recently that he and his confreres were aware that the first step towards the sane handling of criminal affairs in this country would be the establishment by the federal government of an office which...
Page 224 - In prayer we call God's blessing on our valiant troops!" God on the lips of each potentate, and under the hundred thousand spires prayer that twenty-two million servants of Christ may receive from God the blessed strength to tear and blow each other to pieces, to ravage and burn, to wrench husbands from...
Page 164 - The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think."— John Galsworthy.
Page 182 - ... one feels that among all the lessons which men require for carrying on the struggle against the inevitable imperfections of their lot on earth, there is no lesson which they more need, than not to add to the evils which nature inflicts, by their jealous and prejudiced restrictions on one another.