Thus first traditions were a proof alone, Could we be certain such they were, so known:

The answer which seems to suffice in all the Allied countries is that the German Imperial Governmentthat the German Imperial Government alonestands in the way, that its tradition is incurably a tradition of conquest and aggression, that until German militarism is overthrown, etc.

Frederick the Great chose his warriors for their height, and that tradition has become a policy in Germany.

Tradition going back to Frederick the Great, nearly two hundred years ago, had been smashedby amateur soldiers.

Our religion was Protestant and English; our literature took root in English forms of thought; our free institutions were the outcome of principles which had been, and now are, influential in English politics; our common law was English, our traditions of liberty were English, and that union of liberty and law which makes us strong, we inherited from our English fathers.

It is hardly too much to say that the Declan tradition in Waterford and Cork is a spiritual actuality, extraordinary and unique, even in a land which till recently paid special popular honour to its local saints.

In her Fortnightly Review essay on "The Influence of Rationalism," she says all large minds have long had "a vague sense" "that tradition is really the basis of our best life."

The traditions of the past sixty years were a portion of our heritage, and it never was easy for any great heart and reflective mind even to seem to part with that heritage to enter upon the perilous effort of establishing a new nationality.

The Foreign Office, of course, is full of interest, and its social traditions have always been of the most dignified sortfrom the days when Mr. Ranville-Ranville used to frequent Mrs. Perkins's Balls to the existing reign of Sir Thomas Sanderson and Mr. Eric Barrington.

Is the contemplation of their own history and respect for their own traditions the lenitive he prescribes for a people whose only history is a revolution, whose only tradition is rebellion?

The tradition that the potato is the Irish national vegetable is a hoary fallacy that needs to be exploded once and for all.

But the tradition of divine concerns according to science is the illustrious, prerogative of the Platonic philosophy.

The great traditions of Prussian history are the atmosphere they breathe, and they become patriotic.

Tradition is a large and persistent element in the better life of the race, while the past certainly has a powerful influence over the present.

The great Elizabethan tradition is an incubus to be exorcised.

The tradition of Grub Street was for him a living fact.

With Great Britain the tie of language, the tradition of personal freedom, and the strain in the blood are powerful links.

Tradition is the inherited experience of the race, the result of its long efforts, its many struggles, after a larger life.

When the tradition is Satyric, as here, the same process produces almost an opposite effect.

The splendid traditions of our race and land, the noble institutions, the venerable order, the broad slow march from precedent to precedent that has made our English people great and this sunny island freeit is all an idle tale, told and done with.

As he gets farther and farther away, the traditions of the performances which he conducted become paler and paler.

" The time and circumstance of this wandering are unknown, and we may make what we will of it; but to the men of Schwyz the tradition is an affirmation of their original primal independence.

Many traditions are only egotism and selfishness.

The ruling tradition in philosophy has always been the platonic and aristotelian belief that fixity is a nobler and worthier thing than change.

This is what Mohammed felt and now declared to be of infinite moment, that idols and formulas were nothing; that the jargon of argumentative Greek sects, the vague traditions of Jews, the stupid routine of Arab idolatry were a mockery and a delusion; that there is but one God; that we must let idols alone and look to Him.