Readings in Social ProblemsAlbert Benedict Wolfe |
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... greater part of it - to a more or less super- ficial and temporizing study of what we may call for brevity the " down and out " ; and this to the neglect of serious study of the underlying historical , economic , psychological , and ...
... greater part of it - to a more or less super- ficial and temporizing study of what we may call for brevity the " down and out " ; and this to the neglect of serious study of the underlying historical , economic , psychological , and ...
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... greater need of calm study and of effort to understand all points of view . Barring , momentarily , questions of the anthro- pological status of the negro , the race problem may be considered to have two main roots - one economic , the ...
... greater need of calm study and of effort to understand all points of view . Barring , momentarily , questions of the anthro- pological status of the negro , the race problem may be considered to have two main roots - one economic , the ...
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... greater than any increase which has been hitherto known . In the northern states of America , where the means of sub- sistence have been more ample , the manners of the people more pure , and the checks to early marriages fewer , than ...
... greater than any increase which has been hitherto known . In the northern states of America , where the means of sub- sistence have been more ample , the manners of the people more pure , and the checks to early marriages fewer , than ...
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... greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility . Man is necessarily confined in room . When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied , the yearly increase of food must depend upon the ...
... greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility . Man is necessarily confined in room . When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied , the yearly increase of food must depend upon the ...
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... greater increase than could with reason be expected . In the next twenty - five years , it is impossible to suppose that . the produce could be quadrupled . It would be contrary to all our knowledge of the properties of land . The ...
... greater increase than could with reason be expected . In the next twenty - five years , it is impossible to suppose that . the produce could be quadrupled . It would be contrary to all our knowledge of the properties of land . The ...
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Popular passages
Page 444 - By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law ; that is the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 581 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives ; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 578 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 579 - Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
Page 579 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 762 - A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back, "Cast down your bucket where you are.
Page 257 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown on special inquiry that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes...
Page 764 - ... that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.
Page 405 - An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States...
Page 374 - States, he shall cause such alien within the period of three years after landing or entry therein to be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came...