—In contrast with other conceptions of progress is that of Dewey, who emphasizes science and social control, or, as he puts it, the "problem of discovering the needs and capacities of collective human nature as we find it aggregated in racial or national groups on the surface of the globe."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It is a problem of discovering the needs and capacities of collective human nature as we find it aggregated in racial or national groups on the surface of the globe, and of inventing the social machinery which will set available powers operating for the satisfaction of those needs.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The Negritos must not be confused with the black or negro race of New Guinea or Melanesia, who are commonly called Papuans; for those Negroes are of tall stature and belong with the true Negroes of Africa, though how the Negro race thus came to be formed of two so widely separated branches we do not know.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

And it would, in my judgment, be unwise to withdraw the naval force now in those ports until, by the spontaneous action of the Republic of New Granada or otherwise, some adequate arrangement shall have been made for the protection and security of a line of interoceanic communication, so important at this time not to the United States only, but to all other maritime states, both of Europe and America.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The chief obstacle in the way of Dost Mahomed would be in the opposition of those who are inimical to him and his family, and these include every other Douranee tribe in the country, to whom, therefore, the knowledge of such a design would render our name generally odious—whilst the attempt itself would undoubtedly lead the Toorkomans and other great bordering tribes to view with jealousy the powers of a chief whose interests they would soon have the sagacity to discover we had adopted for the purpose of serving our own interests at their expense.”
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

The nation has lost many a noble example of men and women acting a great part on great occasions, and then retreating to the shade of privacy; and we may be confident that many a name has not been inscribed on the roll of national glory only from wanting a few drops of ink!
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

Romanesca e Spagnuola: report of Niccolò Gagnolo of Parma, who had accompanied the French ambassador to Ferrara.
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

Even in death, he is still the spectator, grinning through the window of his sanctuary at the rows of nameless graves outside.
— from Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

As he would have told you, however, he made a definite rule of never "going out to lunch" with any woman working on The Honeycomb.
— from The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

A of the Eighteenth Regiment of National Guards of South [46] Carolina; and also as a dwelling for the Captain of the Company, who, having just returned from his day’s work in the city, now sat with his chair tilted back against the post of the open door, tossing his infant and conversing with his wife, who was preparing their evening meal.
— from Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life among the Freedmen by H. N. K. (Harriet Newell Kneeland) Goff

The worst feature of anarchy is not so much the absence of the overthrown government as the rise of new governments of an inferior grade.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

He is the temperate and valiant and wise; and when his riches come and go, when his children are given and taken away, he will remember the proverb—"Neither rejoicing overmuch nor grieving overmuch," for he relies upon himself.
— from Menexenus by Plato