Ethical Addresses and Ethical Record, Volume 18

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Ethical Addresses, 1911
 

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Página 40 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told. In groves of oak. or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
Página 96 - IDEALS ARE LIKE STARS, YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED IN TOUCHING THEM WITH YOUR HANDS, BUT LIKE THE SEA-FARING MAN ON THE DESERT OF WATERS, YOU CHOOSE THEM AS YOUR GUIDES AND FOLLOWING THEM, YOU REACH YOUR DESTINY.
Página 40 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He buildcd better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 51 - HAIL! THE GLORIOUS GOLDEN CITY FELIX ADLER Hail the glorious Golden City, Pictured by the seers of old! Everlasting light shines o'er it, Wondrous tales of it are told : Only righteous men and women Dwell within its gleaming wall ; Wrong is banished from its borders, Justice reigns supreme o'er all.
Página 51 - And the work that we have builded, Oft with bleeding hands and tears, And in error and in anguish, Will not perish with our years. It will...
Página 208 - The man who, expending his energies wholly on private affairs refuses to take trouble about public affairs, pluming himself on his wisdom in minding his own business, is blind to the fact that his own business is made possible only by maintenance of a healthy social state, and that he loses all round by defective governmental arrangements.
Página 32 - Congress has been described by the organisers to be " to discuss, in the light of modern knowledge and the modern conscience, the general relations subsisting between the peoples of the West and those of the East, between so-called white and so-called coloured peoples, with a view to encouraging between them a fuller understanding, the most friendly feelings and a heartier co-operation.
Página 201 - THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 180 - ... formula. I repeat, it is the fundamental weakness of our teaching force today (putting aside teachers who are actually incompetent by reason either of wrong motives or inadequate preparation) that they react in gross to the child's exhibitions in gross without analyzing them into their detailed and constituent elements. If the child is angry, he is dealt with simply as an angry being; anger is an entity, a force, not a symptom. If a child is inattentive, this again is treated as a mere case of...
Página 51 - We. are builders of that city, All our joys and all our groans Help to rear its shining ramparts, All our lives are...

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