item: #1 of 3 id: 13930 author: Roosevelt, Theodore title: African and European Addresses date: None words: 54173 flesch: 58 summary: I do not for one moment admit that a nation should treat other nations in a different spirit from that in which an honorable man would treat other men. Of course, in any mass of men there are sure to be some who are weak or unworthy, and even those who are good are sure to make occasional mistakes--that is as true of pioneers as of other men. keywords: address; american; blood; centuries; change; citizen; civilization; country; course; day; development; duty; egypt; empire; europe; fact; form; good; government; history; justice; life; man; mankind; men; movement; nation; need; new; peace; people; period; power; present; public; qualities; race; roosevelt; science; self; speech; states; things; time; type; university; war; way; work; world; years cache: 13930.txt plain text: 13930.txt item: #2 of 3 id: 15487 author: Addams, Jane title: Democracy and Social Ethics date: None words: 48515 flesch: 55 summary: Until she marries she remains at home with no special break or change in her family and social life. These dances may be the only organized form of social life which the disheartened employee is able to mention, but the girl herself, in her discontent and her moving from place to place, is blindly striving to respond to a larger social life. keywords: alderman; business; charity; children; city; claim; community; democracy; effort; employees; employer; ethics; experience; factory; family; family life; good; household; individual; labor; life; man; men; mind; money; order; people; public; relation; school; self; sense; situation; social; time; visitor; women; work; years cache: 15487.txt plain text: 15487.txt item: #3 of 3 id: 31196 author: Ruskin, John title: Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work date: None words: 47735 flesch: 64 summary: It is by a blundering confusion of ideas between _governing_ men, and _trading in_ men, and by consequent interference with the restraint, instead of only with the sale, that most of the great errors in action have been caused among the emancipation men. I only wish I had either your power, C. Kingsley, Maurice, or some such able pen-generalship, to illustrate and show forth all the wise teaching on law, government, and social life I see in it, and shining like a star through all its pages.[A] I feel also the truth of all you have written, and will do all I can to make such men or women that care for such thoughts, see it, or read it. keywords: art; children; classes; day; education; good; hand; help; human; kind; labor; land; law; laws; letter; life; man; means; men; mind; money; nation; people; persons; place; power; present; public; question; right; sense; state; system; things; time; truth; use; want; way; word; work; working; years cache: 31196.txt plain text: 31196.txt