We have had nineteen centuries of ecclesiastical teaching and preaching, and what do we see in our midst? Tens of thousands of hon...est and industrious poor begging--not for bread, but for labour; thousands of malicious loafers looking evilly aslant at wealth; myriads of fallen women pacing the streets and alleys of our towns that they may degrade for temporary hire, to men more debased than themselves, those frail bodies which should be "temples of the living God." We see millions toiling early and late for the mere necessaries of life. We see an inordinate desire for wealth and luxury, to the exclusion of duty and of pity and consideration for others. We see the wealthy and gifted too often abandoned to sensuality and frivolity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite an...d individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world men inhabit ... is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shar...ed; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our party to the diplomatic corps was all that could be desired.... The exclusion of wine from the list of refreshments has turned... out exceedingly well. There is a good deal of dissipation here. At the receptions of the British Minister, and at that of the Mexican Minister, disgraceful things were done by young men made reckless by too much wine. Hence the necessity for our course is obvious, and is commended in unexpected quarters. Many of the foreign gentlemen speak of it with approval. We shall stick to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, the... blacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.... Who does not see that the same authority which can establi...sh Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public mu...st be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of coll...ective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life--of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »