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... period is an era of change , but some are more so than others , and it is difficult to escape the conviction that ours is a time of peculiarly rapid and pronounced trans- formation of social and ethical ideals , especially of the ideals ...
... period is an era of change , but some are more so than others , and it is difficult to escape the conviction that ours is a time of peculiarly rapid and pronounced trans- formation of social and ethical ideals , especially of the ideals ...
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... period of great economic , ethical , and religious readjustment , and that when these changes have more nearly worked themselves out , a natural , and perhaps rapid , decline in the amount of divorce may be looked for . The ethics of ...
... period of great economic , ethical , and religious readjustment , and that when these changes have more nearly worked themselves out , a natural , and perhaps rapid , decline in the amount of divorce may be looked for . The ethics of ...
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... period of doubling will be only twelve years and four fifths . And this proportion is not only a possible supposition , but has actually occurred for short periods in more countries than one . Sir William Petty supposes a doubling ...
... period of doubling will be only twelve years and four fifths . And this proportion is not only a possible supposition , but has actually occurred for short periods in more countries than one . Sir William Petty supposes a doubling ...
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Albert Benedict Wolfe. unexhausted vigor ; and the increase of one period would furnish the power of a greater increase the next , and this without any limit . From the accounts we have of China and Japan , it may be fairly doubted ...
Albert Benedict Wolfe. unexhausted vigor ; and the increase of one period would furnish the power of a greater increase the next , and this without any limit . From the accounts we have of China and Japan , it may be fairly doubted ...
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... period the population would be eighty - eight millions , and the means of subsistence just equal to the support of half that number . And , at the conclusion of the first century , the population would be a hundred and seventy - six ...
... period the population would be eighty - eight millions , and the means of subsistence just equal to the support of half that number . And , at the conclusion of the first century , the population would be a hundred and seventy - six ...
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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.
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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...