Preliminary Work of the Committee […] In the German gymnasia the course of history, from Homeric times to the present day, is covered with great thoroughness and system. To this part of the report on the German schools we wish to call special attention, for while we do not think that it is profitable for us, even in this particular, to follow the German curriculum exactly, we believe that there should be an effort on the part of those who are organizing programmes to reach toward this ideal, by extending the course of history over a number of years, and by developing it in accordance with the psychological principles which have been adhered to in the preparation of the German course of study. […]
On former occasions we have expressed our approbation of the plan of this popular work, and our satisfaction with the general execution. The present volume, just issued from the press, contains, among the additions by the American editors, biographical notices of James Monroe, Gen. Richard Montgomery, Gen. Daniel Morgan, William Morgan, Robert Morris, Gouverneur Morris, Gen. William Moultrie, William Vans Murray, James Otis, Robert Treat Paine, Theophilus Parsons, and C.W. Peale (the founder of the Philadelphia Museum.) It is to be regretted that the department of American Biography presents generally only a few meager details.[...]
There have been many movements in the world—some of them recorded in history as portentous events, others forgotten within a few years of their occurrence—which may each be compared to a wave on the surface of the Mediterranean. From the insignificant ripple to the wavehigh billow flecked with foam and breaking in cataracts, they have arisen only to subside to their original level, leaving the boundaries of land and sea where they have stood for a thousand years. There are other movements, on the contrary, which resemble the tides of the Ocean, wherein each wave obeys one uniform impetus, and carries the waters onward and upward along the shore. [...]
Viel wichtiger sind für unsere Betrachtungen diejenigen Vorgänge universaler Beziehungen, in denen es gelingt, tatsächliche starke Einflüsse einer bestimmten menschlichen Gemeinschaft einer anderen innerhalb ihres menschlich verlaufenden Entwicklungsprozesses als in ständiger Entwicklung fortdauernd einzuimpfen.[...]
La conférence, Considérant l’identité des principes généraux qui dominent et des buts vers lesquels tendent la Convention de Berne, revisée à Berlin puis à Rome, et la Convention signée par les États américains à Buenos-Ayres en 1910 puis revisée à La Havane en février 1928; [...]
Die Konferenz hat in Erwägung gezogen, dass die Berner Konvention, revidiert in Berlin und dann in Rom, und die von den amerikanischen Staaten im Jahre 1910 in Buenos Aires unterzeichnete und später im Februar 1928 in Havanna revidierte Konvention in den wesentlichen Grundzügen und Zielen identisch sind; [...]
In unseren Zeiten begnügt man sich nicht mehr mit den literarischen und künstlerischen Werken, die im eigenen Lande produziert werden. Der Horizont hat sich ausgedehnt: der Mensch will, was unter anderem Himmel, durch andere Völker entsteht, kennen und verstehen und seinen geistigen Besitz durch das Beste, was die Menschheit in dieser Beziehung hervorbringt, bereichern.[...]
''What I envy you is your liberty," observed M. de Bellegarde, „your wide range, your freedom to come and go, your not having a lot of people, who take themselves awfully seriously, expecting something of you. I live," he added with a sigh, „beneath the eyes of my admirable mother." [...]
It would be impossible for me either to appear at or write to your Convention in the aim of furnishing a contribution to your deliberations, except in connection with my own life-work, and the deep convictions which instigated that life-work, and which have become even more and more profound as I continued in it.[...]