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Both contentions are unsound.

All at once we realize that a great part of our old contentions was only sound and fury and self-deception, and that, though the causes for which we strove may have been absolutely right, our opponents were not necessarily villains.

It will be remembered that the two main contentions, often repeated by the hostile party in 1829 and after, were to the effect that the liberty of the subject was in grave danger at the hands of an unconstitutional "gendarmerie," armed with mysterious powers of domiciliary espionage, and that the expense to the ratepayers of maintaining these tyrants would be ruinous.

As often happens in physiological arguments, the two opposite contentions each contain a part of the truth.

) contentions would appear to prove him pretty badly addicted runs directly counter to accepted scientific methods.

I thought I could understand how such a nature as my guardian's, experienced in the world and forced to contemplate the miserable evasions and contentions of the family misfortune, found an immense relief in Mr.

That I suffered much in these contentions, that they filled me with unhappiness and remorse, and yet that I had a sustaining sense that it was required of me, in right and honour, to keep away from myself, with shame, the thought of turning to the dear girl in the withering of my hopes, from whom I had frivolously turned when they were bright and fresh-which consideration was at the root of every thought I had concerning her-is all equally true.

Everyone agrees the decision puts a rude end to Clinton's second honeymoon, though most accounts cited the coverage rather than the facts of Jones' contentions as the main problem.

Some Indians already resent suggestions they are descended from ancient Asians--such contentions fly in the face of their creation myths.

23, 1998 New York Times Headline: "Growing Number of Schools Ban Peanut Butter as Allergy Threat" Prodded by parents warning of lethal allergies, by the contentions of some researchers that peanut allergies are on the rise and, not least, by a fear of litigation, growing numbers of public and private schools across the country, including many of New York City's most selective independent schools, have banned peanut butter from their cafeterias.

Yet the author proceeded to give recent examples of disinterest (impartiality, fairness, dispassion, neutrality, unbiasedness) in action--proving that behavior can continue to exist unaltered even if our words for it change, and disproving the writer's own contentions.

The labour and contentions of a rude, nascent, and struggling society supplied it, these perpetually were trying, chastising, and forming the class whose predominance was then needed by society to give it points of cohesion, and was not so harmful to themselves because they were thus sharply tried and exercised.

I shall therefore examine these contentions.

Even assuming, as we probably must, that he somewhat exaggerates what is possible with our present scientific knowledge, it must nevertheless be conceded that his contentions contain a very large measure of truth.

We shall proceed on the assumption that freedom is the supreme aim of a good social system, but on this very basis we shall find the Anarchist contentions very questionable.

But all such contentions, it seems to me, have their limitations.

"If the prize court declines to accept his contentions, and if, after such a decision has been upheld on appeal by the judicial committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, the Government of the United States considers that there is serious ground for holding that the decision is incorrect and infringes the rights of their citizens, it is open to them to claim that it should be subjected to review by an international tribunal.

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