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The neutrality of Alsace-Lorraine, therefore, would have been merely a sham, harmful to us and helpful to France. Nothing was left, therefore, but to bring both these countries with their strong fortresses completely under German control.
National feeling, as we know it, could not exist in a nation which was wholly free from external pressure of a hostile kind. And group feeling produces a limited and often harmful kind of morality.
Her hair was very dark and thick, matching her deep liquid eyes, that lay for the most part so quietly and restfully beneath their long shading lashes, eyes gentle, frank, and modest, looking tenderly on all things innocent, fearlessly on all things harmful; eyes that nevertheless noted every change of your countenance, and read unerringly your meaning more from your looks than from your words.
Where is the good of an exquisitely formed machine, if it is to be shattered for want of control of the motive power? It would of course be equally harmful to train the guiding power while neglecting entirely flabby, undeveloped muscles.
What he has learned out of school, meanwhile, as often as not, is harmful rather than beneficial. The school door closes and the factory gate stands open wide. The children get their working papers, and slip out of the one, and through the other. At once, as we arrange matters, begins the fatal effect of handing over children, body and soul, into the control of industry.
The offences specified are those of which repeated instances had been recently given; and negligence is ranked with more positive faults, because in practice equally harmful and equally culpable. Every man in active life, whatever his business, knows this to be so.
The end justifies evil means only if it is so supremely good as to overbalance that evil. It is pertinent, however, to add two considerations. First, we must feel sure that no less harmful means are available. And secondly, we must feel sure that these evil means are really adapted to attain the purpose.
On the contrary, they were convinced that an idea or a sentiment, dangerous in itself, became still more harmful when artistically expressed.
The precious days of youth should be devoted primarily to the storing up of health, without which lasting success is impossible. Nothing is more harmful to sound physical development and mental growth than the strain of extensive tours. It is true that one great virtuoso now before the public played frequently before large audiences as an infant prodigy.
The rougher among the new-comers embarked eagerly in this harmful and disreputable business, and the low-class French followed their example. The Americans numbered some sixty families, and had built an American quarter, with a strong blockhouse. They only ventured out to till their cornfields in bodies of armed men, while the French worked their lands singly and unarmed.
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