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and to consequent agreement. We are 

 here, however, speaking from the sci- 

 entific point of view, in which agree- 

 ment in truth is the supreme end; while 

 Senator Ilawley is speaking from the 

 pohtical point of view, in which the 

 errors of difference for partisan pur- 

 poses are the supreme end. Nor would 

 he have the higher step taken which 

 leads to agreement, for that would end 

 partisanship, and, according to his logic, 

 if parties should come to an under- 

 standing on political principles, it would 

 be fatal to free government. "Free 

 government," then, depends upon ig- 

 norance, and must be destroyed by the 

 progress of knowledge. Senator Haw- 

 ley is a politician, and with him partisan 

 politics is the end, with its fruits of office 

 and power. Elections and campaigns 

 are his means, and his sole condition of 

 success is to be able to arouse voters to 

 hot political strife. So he wants differ- 

 ences, because men will fight over differ- 

 ences but never over agreements. Dif- 

 ferences in politics there certainly are, 

 and must long continue to be: what 

 we object to in Senator Hawley's poht- 

 ical philosophy is, he demands that this 

 low partisanship which he so enjoys 

 shall be eternal, and that it would be a 

 "lamentable day" when it comes to an 

 end. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



A Text-Book of Nursing. For the Use of 

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 Students. By Clara S. Wekks, Gradu- 

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Miss Wekks's "Text-Book" will be recog- 

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and imperfect. There has been a very valu- 

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 rules and suggestions which, however use- 

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But the usefulness of the " Text-Book " 

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Professor Laughlin in this useful little 

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