 | Edith M. Phelps - 1915 - 344 páginas
...In whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience—to reject all progress, all improvement. What I do say...authority fairly considered and weighed cannot stand." Nowadays we take too much for granted. Lulled to sleep by the unparalleled p'rosperity we have enjoyed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 156 páginas
...guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound 35 to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to...opinions and policy of our fathers in any case, we should 5 do so upon evidence so conclusive, and argument so clear, that even their great authority, fairly... | |
 | James A. Briggs - 1915 - 48 páginas
...did. To do eo, would be to discard all the lights of current experience—to reject all progress—all improvement. What I do say is, that if we would supplant the opinions and policy of onr fathers in any case, we should do so upon evidence so conclusive, and argument so clear, that even... | |
 | John Thomas Richards - 1916 - 314 páginas
...it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? If we would supplant the opinions of our fathers in any case, we should do so upon evidence...authority, fairly considered and weighed, cannot stand. No one who has sworn to support the Constitution can conscientiously vote for what he understands to... | |
 | John Thomas Richards - 1916 - 314 páginas
...it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? If we would supplant the opinions of our fathers in any case, we should do so upon evidence...authority, fairly considered and weighed, cannot stand. No one who has sworn to support the Constitution can conscientiously vote for what he understands to... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1916 - 304 páginas
...NEW YORK LONDON COPTBIOHT, 1916, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Printed in the United States of America If we would supplant the opinions and policy of our...case, we should do so upon evidence so conclusive, and arguments so clear, that even their great authority fairly considered and weighed cannot stand. ABRAHAM... | |
 | Rome Green Brown - 1917 - 1002 páginas
...of Abraham Lincoln are applicable here: "I do not mean to say that we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to...reject all progress, all improvement. What I do say is chat if we would supplant the opinion and policy of our fathers in any case, we should do so upon evidence... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 páginas
...guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so, would be to...all the lights of current experience — to reject alf progress, all improvement. What I do say is, that if we would supplant the opinions and policy... | |
 | John Huston Finley - 1919 - 374 páginas
...guard a little against being mis25 understood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to...if we would supplant the opinions and policy of our and most surely not in a case whereof we ourselves declare they understood the question better than... | |
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Now, and here, let me guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience —to reject all progress — all improvement. 
