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Page 101 - And her general conduct has been true to her first principles, to render to Caesar the things that were Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's ; to do nothing against the command of God, but to suffer every thing which the Csesar may require.
Page 102 - ... the evolutionary idea, penetrated by love of life, will be able to teach to the new generation an even deeper veneration for the work of intellectual and material culture. These new mothers will be able and are able to instill into the minds of their babies an ever more burning hatred of the wanton waste of life, the devastation of culture, the degradation of souls which latent as well as acute warfare has up to the present forced upon mankind. People who can see farther than their noses know...
Page 102 - ... final reckoning. Times have changed, and no longer do mothers bring up their children in the double-faced morality, and teach them as individuals rather to suffer wrong than do wrong, rather to renounce their objects than to pursue them by unworthy means, and who bid them to put away the thoughts of vengeance and forgive their enemies — but who then with flaming eyes and inciting words exhort their sons as defenders of their country to commit acts which, as private persons, they regard as worse...
Page 250 - Such statements were made with quite as much force at the end of the eighteenth century as at the end of the nineteenth.