Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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Page 35
... of our civilization were laid in feudality , although they have branched into freedom , but the tree has yet to bear the flower of equality . Hence , we remain a race of castes , whose boundary lines are so CLOCKLAND . 35.
... of our civilization were laid in feudality , although they have branched into freedom , but the tree has yet to bear the flower of equality . Hence , we remain a race of castes , whose boundary lines are so CLOCKLAND . 35.
Page 44
... there is both friendship and equality between employer and employed without its walls . When Jack is really as good as his master , the old proverb has no sting . CHAPTER IV WINSTED A TEMPERANCE TOWN . THE Naugatuck valley 44 CLOCKLAND .
... there is both friendship and equality between employer and employed without its walls . When Jack is really as good as his master , the old proverb has no sting . CHAPTER IV WINSTED A TEMPERANCE TOWN . THE Naugatuck valley 44 CLOCKLAND .
Page 74
... equality which underlie all American institutions , and so great was the fear of seeming proud , or self - impor- tant , that men agreed in pronouncing it honourable to be ignorant of their origin . This feeling , however , was not ...
... equality which underlie all American institutions , and so great was the fear of seeming proud , or self - impor- tant , that men agreed in pronouncing it honourable to be ignorant of their origin . This feeling , however , was not ...
Page 80
... equality is no fiction in New England and to understand whence it is born and how bred . Every child in the town attends either the common or high school , according as its studies are more or less . advanced . Here , boys and girls sit ...
... equality is no fiction in New England and to understand whence it is born and how bred . Every child in the town attends either the common or high school , according as its studies are more or less . advanced . Here , boys and girls sit ...
Page 89
... equality in every American public school . It is im- plicitly forbidden to teach any form of creed whatsoever , and the only religious exercise permitted is the reading of the Bible and an opening prayer . Upon this matter , as upon ...
... equality in every American public school . It is im- plicitly forbidden to teach any form of creed whatsoever , and the only religious exercise permitted is the reading of the Bible and an opening prayer . Upon this matter , as upon ...
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