Manual Training: The Solution of Social and Industrial ProblemsHarper & Brothers, 1886 - 403 páginas |
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Manual Training: The Solution of Social and Industrial Problems Charles Henry Ham Vista completa - 1886 |
Manual Training: The Solution of Social and Industrial Problems Charles Henry Ham Vista completa - 1886 |
Manual Training: The Solution of Social and Industrial Problems Charles Henry Ham Vista de fragmentos - 1886 |
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Página 309 - Grace shall not be able to say Nay to the infamous alliance. There is not an atom of Tom's slime, not a cubic inch of any pestilential gas in which he lives, not one obscenity or degradation about him, not an ignorance, not a wickedness, not a brutality of his committing, but shall work its retribution, through every order of society, up to the proudest of the proud, and to the highest of the high.
Página 304 - That which our school courses leave almost entirely out, we thus find to be that which most nearly concerns the business of life. All our industries would cease, were it not for that information which men begin to acquire as they best may after their education is said to be finished.
Página 304 - The vital knowledge— that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our whole existence, is a knowledge that has got itself taught in nooks and corners; while the ordained agencies for teaching have been mumbling little else but dead formulas.
Página 233 - 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 39 - Sir Robert Peel had a great deficiency ; he was without imagination. Wanting imagination, he wanted prescience. No one was more sagacious when dealing with the circumstances before him ; no one penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless provided he had not to deal with the future. Thus it happened through his long career, that while he always was looked upon as the most prudent and safest of leaders, he ever, after a protracted display of admirable tactics,...
Página 235 - I wish to say, furthermore, that you had better, all you people at the South, prepare yourselves for a settlement of that question, that must come up for settlement sooner than you are prepared for it. The sooner you are prepared the better. You may dispose of me very easily. I am nearly disposed of now; but this question is still to be settled, — this negro question, I mean; the end of that is not yet.
Página 303 - Town- meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
Página 341 - ... may be deemed advisable to add to the foregoing from time to time.
Página 120 - In his eighty-second year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's command. " His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philologist,— he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated...
Página 110 - Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred.