... millions of dollars, it was abolished by the most fearful of modern revolutions, — at a cost, when all the loss is reckoned in, of ten thousand millions of dollars, and of nearly, if not quite, a million of lives, and these on the whole the noblest... The Commencement Annual - Página 83por University of Michigan - 1890Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1891 - 714 páginas
...dollars, it was abolished by the most fearful of modern wars, at a cost, when all the loss is reckoned, of ten thousand millions of dollars, and of nearly,...from our time, but ending nearer it. In the latter half of the last century the Empire of Germany was the very seat of unreason and injustice. Its political... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - 1892 - 898 páginas
...million of lives, and these on the whole the noblest lives the nation, North and South, had to give. Thus had we political and social progress by catastrophe...from our time, but ending nearer it. In the latter half of the last century the Empire of Germany was the very seat and center of unreason and injustice.... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1894 - 884 páginas
...million of lives, and these on the whole the noblest lives the nation, North and South, had to give. Thus had we political and social progress by catastrophe rather than by growth, — progress, not j by evolution, but by revolution. j History is full of such examples: let me give one, finally, beginning... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1897 - 176 páginas
...million of lives, and these on the whole the noblest lives the nation, North and South, had to give. Thus had we political and social progress by catastrophe...from our time, but ending nearer it. In the latter half of the last century the Empire of Germany was the very seat and center of unreason and injustice.... | |
| Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 526 páginas
...million of lives, and these on the whole the noblest lives the nation, North and South, had to give. Thus had we political and social progress by catastrophe...from our time, but ending nearer it. In the latter half of the last century the Empire of Germany was the very seat and centre of unreason and injustice.... | |
| VICTOR L. BERGER - 1919 - 934 páginas
...had to give. Thus we had political and social progress by catastrophe rather than by growthprogress not by evolution, but by "revolution." History is full of such examples. Are we to learn nothing from the past? "All great reforms must be baptized in blood," said recently... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - 1822 - 916 páginas
...million of lives, and these on the whole the noblest lives the nation, North and South, had to give. Thus had we political and social progress by catastrophe...from our time, but ending nearer it. In the latter half of the last century the Empire of Germany was the very seat and center of unreason and injustice.... | |
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