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All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision... →
Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long... →
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a... →
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew... →
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man... →
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle... →
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its... →
No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and... →
The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new... →
With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.
Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to... →
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