 New times demand new measures and new men ; The world advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' day were best; And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.  Congressional Serial Set - Side 151917Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | American Bar Association - 1912 - 1264 sider
...with James Russell Lowell, a reformer in his day and one of the sanest of real poets, when he wrote : New times demand new measures and new men: The world...outgrows The laws that in our father's day were best; And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme "Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by... | |
 | 1895 - 748 sider
...lighted candle, over a child's cot. ELLA HEPWORTH DIXON. IN THE LIBRARY. " Marcella " : A Dialogiie. "The time is ripe, and rotten ripe for change, Then let it come : I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind ; Nor think I that God's world will... | |
 | 1962 - 384 sider
...American poet James Russell Lowell, a brief five lines that offer a theme for our common consideration: "New times demand new measures and new men; The world...advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' day were best; And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men... | |
 | 1925 - 394 sider
...nor alarming. Was it not Lowell who wrote many years ago, in language which is as apt now as then— New times demand new measures and new men. The world...advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' time were best. And doubtless after us some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than... | |
 | 1953 - 1224 sider
...cries to the East Hosannas! That shouts to the West Huzzas ! — Grace Duffie Boylan lite Qutute, flat New times demand new measures and new men; The world...and in time outgrows The laws that in our father's days were best, And doubtless after us some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we —... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Finance - 1967 - 502 sider
...be no deterrent. For as a great American poet once told us : New times demand new measures * * * ; the world advances and in time outgrows the laws that in our fathers' day were best. Mr. Chairman, I request that my full statement be made a part of the record... | |
 | Joseph Edwards, Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence Baron Pethick-Lawrence - 1901 - 184 sider
...Clarion Co., Ltd., 72, Fleet-st., E. Joseph Edwards, Editor & Publisher, Wallasey, Cheshire. TVTEW Times demand new measures and new men; The world advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' days were best; And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men... | |
 | 1925 - 966 sider
...to force the feet of a fifteen-year-old child into the same sized shoes it wore at the age of ten. New times demand new measures and new men. The world...advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' days were best. And, doubtless after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men... | |
 | Louis D. Brandeis - 1972 - 790 sider
...perchance you do not already know it) in the following of Lowell's: 2 "New times demand new issues and new men, The world advances, and in time outgrows the laws That in our father's time were best; And, doubtless, after us some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we,—... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - 1913 - 448 sider
...rulings and a trial free from technical handicaps. Like James Russell Lowell, there seems to have come to him the troubled thought that "New times demand new...education in the obvious — to learn to transcend "our own convictions and to leave room for. much that we hold "dear to be done away with short of revolution... | |
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