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The consequence is, that there is more individuality of character than in a good many similar boardinghouses, where all are business-men, engrossed in the same pursuit of money-making, or all are engaged in politics, and so deeply occupied with the welfare of the community that they can think and talk of little else.
The most learned of contemporary English historians a few years ago contested a county, and is habitually inspired in his researches into the past by his interest in the politics of the present.
Politics had not acquired a place among the arts, nor had its professors become the teachers of the land.
His ready assurance gave him preeminence with one sex, and his beauty made him the admiration of the other. When he talked, Mandarins listened; when he walked, maidens' eyes glistened. He was, in short, the rage, and he knew it, and meant to remain so. He was a wonderful student, and understood politics like a second Confucius.
When he had finished it he showed it to some of his colleagues for their adhesion; but one and all refused, except Dan Stone, who was not a candidate for reelection, having retired from politics to a seat on the bench. The risk was too great for the rest to run.
So long as it's occupied with politics and the fads and the foibles and the sins and the foolishness and the extravagances of humanity, it's all very well. But if you ever get in trouble or if ever your heart hurts, or you get mad enough to kill somebody, that mouth of yours is going to be a most awfully revealing feature, Peter.
No routine has ever done that in spite of the conservative patter about "human nature"; mechanical politics has usually begun by ignoring and ended by violating the nature of men. To accept that nature does not mean that we accept its present character. It is probably true that the impulses of men have changed very little within recorded history.
State and local politics has been materially improved since women have been electors. No strictly suffrage association has been maintained since the franchise was granted, but when the National League of Women Voters was instituted in 1920 a branch was formed in Idaho with Dr. Emma F. A. Drake chairman.
I am perpetually dissatisfied with things as they are, and wanting them changed. With the single exception of my wife" he bowed to Elinor, "and this little party, which is delightful." "Are you a Socialist?" Lily demanded, in her direct way. "Well, you might call it that. I go a bit further." "Don't talk politics, Jim," Elinor hastily interposed. He caught her eye and grinned.
'Fun and good-fellowship to-night, Con, said Philip, as the captain sadly reported no star visible. 'Have I ever flown a signal to the contrary? retorted the captain. 'No politics, and I 'll thank you, said Philip: 'none of your early recollections. Be jovial.
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