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... workers and physicians , who are familiar with poverty and its effects upon life , that there are no bad babies and good babies , there are only sick babies and well babies . In the same way , I would say there are no pessi- mists and ...
... workers and physicians , who are familiar with poverty and its effects upon life , that there are no bad babies and good babies , there are only sick babies and well babies . In the same way , I would say there are no pessi- mists and ...
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... workers of the world are today learning solidarity in the face of the beast of capitalism . Man has survived by the cunning of his brain , we are told , and that is true . But first among the products of that cunning brain has been the ...
... workers of the world are today learning solidarity in the face of the beast of capitalism . Man has survived by the cunning of his brain , we are told , and that is true . But first among the products of that cunning brain has been the ...
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... scarecrow , except when he is trying to persuade the workers of the world to go on paying him tribute for the use of the natural resources of the earth ! CHAPTER VI MAN THE REBEL ( Shows the transition stage 26 MIND AND BODY.
... scarecrow , except when he is trying to persuade the workers of the world to go on paying him tribute for the use of the natural resources of the earth ! CHAPTER VI MAN THE REBEL ( Shows the transition stage 26 MIND AND BODY.
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... worker of miracles . He does things which we do not at all understand , and cannot yet even foresee , but which often completely make the house over . William James , a scientist of real authority , has a wonder- ful essay , " The ...
... worker of miracles . He does things which we do not at all understand , and cannot yet even foresee , but which often completely make the house over . William James , a scientist of real authority , has a wonder- ful essay , " The ...
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... workers the most easily assimilated of all foods . Salisbury claimed that you could not overeat on meat , but I do not believe there is any food you cannot overeat on , nor do I believe that anyone should try to live on one kind of food ...
... workers the most easily assimilated of all foods . Salisbury claimed that you could not overeat on meat , but I do not believe there is any food you cannot overeat on , nor do I believe that anyone should try to live on one kind of food ...
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Page 196 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
Page 46 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 85 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 197 - Nor ruin make accusers great; Who God doth late and early pray More of His grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend; — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And have nothing, yet hath all.
Page 197 - Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend.
Page 8 - Herself the supreme type of vice, she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue. But for her, the unchallenged purity of countless happy homes would be polluted...
Page 184 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Page 41 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 42 - Do unto others as they would do unto you, but do it first.
Page 115 - The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favoured few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.