Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...must be made in order to harmonize and centralize our forces. With this important end in view, I have to propose the following plan: That the one of the existing clubs which maintains the highest standard of debating be recognized as the chief debating body of the University, and accept its position without arrogance; that the other acknowledge itself subordinate to the first; that the first take in immediately all the members of the latter who are up to its standard; that other subordinate debating clubs be organized in the different departments and circles of the University. Let all these...
Rationalism is that school of philosophy that will accept as true only what may be proved to the reason by means of evidence given by the senses. It is then always at war with religion. It professes to be a strong and manly doctrine, while the rationalists sniff at religious faith as something that can be accepted only by women and children. But they do not look deep enough. Is not the evidence which they do accept as satisfactory really based on faith? They accept the evidences of their senses, the dictates of their reason, but they do not know...
...seems sometimes as if faith in God was something outside of ourselves, whereas reason is something within us which we must of our very nature accept. In every man of every race there is born the spirit of faith in a God. It is just as necessary to his existence as the faith in his own reason and he is as much bound to accept...
...provision in the founder's will that boys of a certain grade shall be "bound out" is apparently almost a dead letter, as according to the report only one was indentured as an apprentice, but 139 were granted permission to leave in order to accept employment...
...which thou sowest it is not quickened, except it die," taken from Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians. Immortality, he said, is something in which many people find it hard to believe. It seems to them unnatural and as its truth can not be absolutely proved, they refuse to accept it. Yet the belief in immortality is something necessary for the existence of life on earth. What would all that we do here amount to, what would be the inducement to work and patience, if there were nothing to look to beyond the grave? Look a little more closely...