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David Josiah Brewer
David Josiah Brewer
American Judge
Born: Jun 20, 1837
Died: Mar 28, 1910
Beyond Day Life Religion Time Woman
Related authors: Clarence Thomas John Roberts Maryanne Trump Barry Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sonia Sotomayor Thurgood Marshall
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic. David Josiah Brewer
Day Science Power Orator Preserved Indefinable Phonograph Critic Some Touch Magnetic Seize Never Cruel Knife Weird Caught Real Perpetuate Real Power Wonderfully May Which Dissecting Save
He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines. David Josiah Brewer
Nature Will Live Prestige Higher Never Develop He Simply Along Because Always His Lines Social Lower Who Honest Position
Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names. David Josiah Brewer
Religion Property Confidence Respect Trust Men Entitled Christian Christianity Too Tribute Case Individuals Names Course Wives Contrary Often Hold Mean Even Deserve
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear. David Josiah Brewer
Time History World Too Inquiring Touched Sacred Reach Beyond Scientific Passed The History Of Anything Spear
Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly. David Josiah Brewer
Life Character Religion Matter Relation Destiny Some Individual Sacred Merely Spoken Lightly Involves Supreme Infinitely Any Being Form Believed Here Hereafter
I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman. David Josiah Brewer
Man Woman Wife Sunday Kiss Believe Other Possibly Some Laws He Conceded New New England Without His Blue May Notwithstanding England Chance
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil. David Josiah Brewer
Woman Wife Evil Christianity Mormonism Sacred Sustained Polygamy Place Which Proclaimed Social Lower Level

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