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When this lectureship was founded there was extraordinary interest, especially among English thinkers, in what was called Natural Religion, by which was meant religion founded, not upon revelation, but upon the world of nature and of man and apprehended, not by faith, but by reason. The arguments based upon the physical world fall into two groups: Causal and Design. The Causal argument concludes in a dilemma, either branch of which is inconceivable. Of the so-called Design argument, that, from adaptations, has been seriously weakened by the theory of evolution and at present only the argument from an ordered system...
...since then has lived in Cambridge. In 1880 and 1881 he was a member of the Massachusetts legislature and from 1881 until 1884 was a member of the State Board of Education. He was an earnest advocate of woman suffrage and was also a well-known man of letters. Among his most notable publications are "Harvard Memorial Biographies," published in 1866; "Young Folks' History of the United States," which has been translated into French, German, and Italian; "English History for American Readers," which he wrote together with Professor Channing of the department of History; "Massachusetts in the Army and Navy...
...dinner of the third year class of the Law School will be held at the Boston City Club, 7 Beacon street, this evening at 6.30 o'clock. Among the speakers will be Mr. Moorfield Storey '66, of Boston, Mr. Henry L. Stimson, A.M. '89, of New York, Dean Thayer, and Professor Eugene Wambaugh...
Meanwhile we await, not without trepidation, that other statistical table, which shall tell us what are and what ought to be the rewards of intellectual distinction among both teachers and taught. With the two tables before us, it may be that we shall be able to tell what are the relations between a business point of view and a high intellectual ambition...
BUSSEY SEMINAR "Goodale's Breeding and Castration Experiments with Ducks," Dr. J.C. Phillips. "De. Vries on Doubly Reciprocal Crosses among Plants." Mr. E. C. McDowell. Bussey Institution...