Ethics and CitizenshipMcClure Company, Incorporated, 1924 - 251 sider |
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Side 3
... better . " These human virtues are as perennial as youth , yet they are as old as civilization . They have been wrought out in the conflicts of life , they have been tried and tested in a thousand generations . The first one of these ...
... better . " These human virtues are as perennial as youth , yet they are as old as civilization . They have been wrought out in the conflicts of life , they have been tried and tested in a thousand generations . The first one of these ...
Side 8
... better . " How shall love of truth , a sense of justice , sym- pathy , a sense of duty , courage , and fidelity be built up ? They must rest upon intelligence , knowledge , and skill ; and all must be quickened by conscience . The great ...
... better . " How shall love of truth , a sense of justice , sym- pathy , a sense of duty , courage , and fidelity be built up ? They must rest upon intelligence , knowledge , and skill ; and all must be quickened by conscience . The great ...
Side 17
... be erroneous for all that . Would it not be better to call a real or a fancied duty to self a right ? In- stead of saying , " This is a duty that I owe myself , ” it seems more logical and more legal to say , ETHICS AND CITIZENSHIP 17.
... be erroneous for all that . Would it not be better to call a real or a fancied duty to self a right ? In- stead of saying , " This is a duty that I owe myself , ” it seems more logical and more legal to say , ETHICS AND CITIZENSHIP 17.
Side 32
... better things . Neither stoicism nor despotism has been able to make hu- manity altogether inhuman . The very fact that law and order generally pre- vail or tend to prevail over anarchy and disorder is proof that human nature prefers ...
... better things . Neither stoicism nor despotism has been able to make hu- manity altogether inhuman . The very fact that law and order generally pre- vail or tend to prevail over anarchy and disorder is proof that human nature prefers ...
Side 33
... better things . If we can thus or otherwise prove to our judg- ment that human nature is good rather than bad , in this our own age of the world , we may assume it as proved for all the ages past ; for all the records tend to show that ...
... better things . If we can thus or otherwise prove to our judg- ment that human nature is good rather than bad , in this our own age of the world , we may assume it as proved for all the ages past ; for all the records tend to show that ...
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Aristotle beauty believe better canon law cardinal certainly CHAPTER character citizen citizenship civic civil law conduct Confucius conscience courage courtesy creed danger declared democracy Don Quixote drunkenness duty envy essential ethics of humanity exalted experience fact feeling fortitude Friedrich Ueberweg fundamental generosity give habits happiness heart Hippocrates honest honor human nature ideal individual intelligence international law jealousy judgment justice less liberty look manhood means metempsychosis Modern American Law moral law nations neighbors ness never Nirvana obligation opportunity passion pathy patience peace perfect perhaps persons Plato portunities practical principle profanity profes Prudence recognized religion respect rule Saint Paul science of right selfish sense social Socrates soul Stagira strength sympathy Tarpeia taught teacher teaching temperance term things thought tion true truth unlawful vices virtues welfare wholesome wisdom words wrong Zoroaster
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Side 184 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace, and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we, also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Side 201 - LORD'S house shall be established as the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow unto it. And many peoples shall go and say: "Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; And He will teach us of His ways, And we will walk in His paths.
Side 239 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Side 183 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Side 10 - We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making if It does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes ? In vain we build the world, unless The builder also grows.
Side 249 - They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I knock and fail to find you in ; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake and rise to fight and win.
Side 110 - Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others.
Side 9 - Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the Thought, The Thought that is ever master Of iron and steam and steel, That rises above disaster And tramples it under heel...
Side 240 - 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.
Side 187 - We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.