John the Common WealUniversity of North Carolina Press, 1927 - 117 strani In this book, MacCracken points out that it is the citizen who is responsible for the successes and failures of a democracy. He argues that, if the citizen is not interested in the government, it will deteriorate and that, if he is interested in it and supports its laws, it will be improved. Originally published in 1927. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value. |
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Stran 102 - Story ! God bless you ! I have none to tell, sir, Only last night, a-drinking at the Chequers, This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. " Constables came up for to take me into Custody; they took me before the justice; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parishStocks for a vagrant.
Stran 101 - FRIEND OF HUMANITY NEEDY knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road; your wheel is out of order. — Bleak blows the blast; — your hat has got a hole in't. So have your breeches! Weary knife-grinder! little think the proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeRoad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, "Knives and Scissors to grind O!
Stran 102 - Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, "Knives and Scissors to grind O ! " Tell me, Knife-grinder, how you came to grind knives : Did some rich man tyrannically use you ? Was it the 'Squire? or Parson of the Parish? Or the Attorney? Was it the 'Squire, for killing of his game?
Stran 102 - Was it the squire, for killing of his game, or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining ? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit ? (Have you not read the " Rights of Man," by Tom Paine ?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Stran 102 - Story"! God bless you, I have none to tell, sir ; Only last night, a-drinking at the Chequers, This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. Constables came up for to take me into Custody ; they took me before the justice ; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parishStocks for a vagrant. I should be glad to drink Your Honor's health in A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence ; But, for my part, I never love to meddle With politics, sir.
Stran 102 - I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first — Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance — Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, Spiritless outcast!
Stran 16 - ... they had trusted. Nations cannot go very far in international understanding if they do not understand themselves thoroughly. And we turn back to education as the agency which is the only force capable of reaching the deep foundations and building solidly upon them the bases of a future world order. No chain is stronger than its weakest link; and no government is better than its worst citizen. For one needless death, one false education, one human wreck in the path of society, the Lord will require...
Stran 38 - Yet they are loosening, and the sociologist of today believes we are in a transitional period between the old and the new. The failure of great masses of our citizens to register in order to exercise the privilege of the poll, the enormous increase in breaking...
Stran 23 - I suppose, in social geography, in comparative human physiology, and rises from the analysis of soil and climate, mountain and plain and sea, through the physique and organism they have developed, to the social psychology of the groups of men. When history is properly taught, it will be taught, no doubt, in terms primarily of sociology. The suggestion made by Professor...
Stran 36 - America of 1927, social science alone can get at the real truth. Just at present it would appear that individualistic promises will defeat socializing tendencies for decades to come. The main currents of religion, art, literature, philosophy, society, are separatist in tendency. We see education itself moving in lines tending to isolate rather than to integrate the citizen. The...