“we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.”
This book offers a first-hand perspective on the social, cultural, and political landscape of America in 1898, providing readers with insights into the daily experiences and observations of the author. more
Beatrice Webb was a British sociologist renowned for her research on social issues during the Industrial Revolution. Her work had a profound impact on later sociological theories. more
“All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.”
“Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?”
“The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.”
“Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.”
“it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.”