Lynn Thompson
speaker
669 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fashion helps to make up religious beliefs.
It often decides to what church we shall go.
and what religious tenets we shall adopt.
It goes into the pulpit and decides the gown and the surplus, and the style of rhetoric.
It goes into literature and arranges the binding, the type, the illustrations of the book, and oftentimes the sentiments expressed and the theories evolved.
Men the most independent in feeling
are by it compelled to submit to social customs.
And before I stop, I want to show you that fashion has been one of the most potent of reformers, and one of the vilest of usurpers.
Sometimes it has been an angel from heaven, and at others it has been the mother of harlots.
As the world grows better, there will be as much fashion as now, but it will be a different fashion.
In the future life white robes always have been and always will be in the fashion.
There is a great outcry against the submission to social customs.
As though any consultation of the tastes and feelings of others were deplorable.
But without it, the world have neither law, order, civilization, nor common decency.
There has been a canonization of bluntness.
There are men and women who boast that they can tell you all they know and hear about you, especially if it be unpleasant.
Some have mistaken rough behaviour for frankness and
When the two qualities do not belong to the same family.
You have no right with your eccentricities to crash in upon the sensitiveness of others.
There is no virtue in walking with hoofs over fine carpets, but
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