There are adequate grounds for asserting that the premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Where trains of ideas play a relatively unimportant part, as in the case of animals, imitation may be said to be the sole form of social tradition.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He was, from childhood, reared in a new country, amid rude, uncultivated people, and was a noble specimen of a frontier man; without the amenities of cultivated life, or the polish of education, yet with all the virtues of the Christian heart, and these, perhaps, the more prominently, because of the absence of the others.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

Thy guardian angels round us place All evil from our couch to chase; Our soul and body, while we sleep, In safety, gracious Father, keep.
— from Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week Together With Confessional, Communion, and Other Prayers and Hymns for Mornings and Evenings, and Other Occasions by Johann Habermann

Toy sewing machines are now sold which are really useful playthings, and on which the child can manufacture a number of small articles.
— from Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne

The American Indians, like all other people in the world, believed in supernatural beings of many sorts, spirits of woods and rocks, Underwater People and an Underworld.
— from The Trail Book by Mary Hunter Austin

Rights in themselves as rights, understood positively, are never immoral, but only amoral.
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

the siege and retreated upon Poole, and not until February 1646 was Corfe Castle again molested.
— from The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

It is confined to rather short and readily understandable presentations appropriate to the overcrowded schedule upon which most of us have to operate.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson

Returning to Rasputin's handsome room I repeated the message, whereupon he sprang up with eager delight, and ringing up Protopopoff at his house
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

copy of a resolution unanimously passed at a meeting of the durham coal owners' association , May 3rd, 1879 The Durham Coal Owners' Association recognising (1) That the public, as well as private interests, so seriously prejudiced by the strike, render it a duty to adopt a course most likely to bring about a settlement; (2) That the proposition for each side appointing a Committee with the full powers seems to have met with general approval; (3) That such Committee would undoubtedly provide the means by which difficult negotiations can be most successfully conducted; Resolves: That a Committee of 14 members of this Association be and are hereby appointed to meet a similar Committee, if such should be appointed by the Miners' Association, with full power to settle the matter at issue.
— from A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 by John Wilson