The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pay...s itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as inde...pendent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann... Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day bring...s. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where did you come from, Baby dear? Out of the everywhere into the here.... Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--... One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewis...e extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abund...ance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not send... men to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »