human
have helped to clear from our eyes the Puritan jaundice that made all physical and social enjoyment look sinful. If
gpt
and
human
are now phrases to conjure with, it is largely owing to the Germans and Bohemians, with their love of song and mirth and
gpt
Few of the present generation realize that fifty years ago the principal place of amusement in the American town, although as innocent of opera as a Kaffir _kraal_, called itself the
human
in order to avoid the damning stigma the reigning Puritanism had attached to the word
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Forty-eighters were able to swing them to the newly formed Republican party, to which, on the whole, they have remained faithful, although in some States their loyalty has been much shaken by prohibition. On money questions the Germans have been conservative. Bringing with them the notion of an efficient civil service, they have despised office-mongering and have befriended the merit system. No immigrants have been more apt to look at public questions from a common-welfare point of view and to vote for their principles rather than for their friends. If by