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Example sentences for "social reform"

  • Instead of this, the emperor, who was much interested in social reform, published two proclamations.

  • The difference of opinion between him and the emperor was not confined to social reform; beyond this was the more serious question as to whether the chancellor or the emperor was to direct the course of the government.

  • When Felix gives Esther an account of his plans, and describes to her his purpose to do what he can to elevate his class, we have George Eliot's own views on the subject of social reform.

  • The account Felix gives of his conversion contains George Eliot's conception of what is to be done by all workingmen who rightly understand what social reform is and how it can be most truly brought about.

  • It is a story of social reform, and is to be read as an embodiment of the author's political ideas.

  • The problem of social reform must be solved by its own members; by those possessed of living faith, indomitable perseverance, unflinching devotion and undying energy.

  • The following is his report to the Phalanx: "It will no doubt be gratifying to those who take an interest in the great idea of a Social Reform, to learn that it is spreading very generally through the State of New York.

  • It has opposed to every proposal of social reform an obstacle that seemed insuperable,--the danger of a rapid overincrease of population that would pauperize the community.

  • We may apply to it with advantage the spectacles of social reform, but what the socialist offers us is total blindness.

  • The shortening of hours with the corresponding changes in the direction of production is really the central problem in social reform.

  • In recent years all leading and progressive nations have been devoting their first thought to social reform.

  • In actual life, therefore, it is often impossible to separate the sentiment from its embodiment in measures of social reform.

  • We cannot fail to call it social reform, that the child should be given so much more definite a place in the social organism.

  • By the time of which I write I had become, by habitual residence, a Londoner; and I hope I was as keen on Social Reform as anyone in London, or outside it.

  • Alone among our leading men, Mr. Chamberlain seemed to apprehend the truth that political reform is related to social reform as the means to the end, and that Politics, in its widest sense, is the science of human happiness.

  • But we do not yet know whether the success of social reform is exposed to danger from any conditions inherent in human nature, and therefore universally to be met with.

  • At the same time, private members complained that they could get no attention for really urgent matters of social reform.

  • Editor of the New Witness the attacks on Masterman ceased, but he did not differ from the two earlier Editors in his views on the ethics of political action or the principles of social reform.

  • The Labour Party decided to meet the Bill with friendly criticism, to recognise it as great measure of social reform, and to advocate amendments which they deemed improvements.

  • The Tory Party is gaining popularity from the resistance of the interests which are affected by the passing of such measures of social reform.

  • The labouring classes will not support a Government engaged in social reform.

  • On its tomb would be written: "Beware of social reform.

  • In all matters of economic theory, of finance, of administration, of social reform, it invokes the advice of specialists.

  • The barbarian Germany has, as is well known, led the way among the other nations with her great institutions for social reform.

  • Social reform is {331} justified as a national army is justified.

  • Social Reform, if it is nothing else, is thus the only possible means of discovering which individuals are fit in the human sense.

  • Neglect of social reform is justified, in a similar way, on the ground that the economic struggle eliminates unfit types, and that to make life easier for the masses of the people is to preserve undesirable stocks in the race.

  • To those who understand the meaning of Social Reform, the necessity of the Budget is clear.

  • The novelists tell a story which pictures human life, and at the same time call us to the work Of social reform, or drive home a moral lesson.

  • To use his invariable phrase, the East Purblow experiment did "no mean service" to the cause of social reform.

  • His attention passed from the consideration of this completely revolutionary party to the general field of social reform.

  • Think if we had a Dickens--and you are the nearest man alive to Dickens--on the side of social reform to-day!

  • And my notion was that in every line written for publication, the end of social reform should be served, directly or indirectly.

  • By association I had come to identify myself, and my ideals of social reform, entirely with those to whom mere mention of the rest of the Empire, or of the ties which made it an Empire, was as a red rag to a bull.

  • My general aim and purpose in journalistic work, at the outset, was the serving of social reform in everything that I did.

  • He had given up preaching for some years, and embarked on the stormy waves of social politics, and had by his writings become an expositor of various theories of social reform, chiefly those of French origin.

  • The general trend of his lectures was the philosophy of history as it bears on questions of social reform.

  • Are there not five men in New York City who would dare to venture $200 each in the cause of social reform, without being assured of a Phalanx for themselves and their children for ever?


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