Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Theme X., "An Exposition," and Theme XI., "An Argument," will be due on April 3 and April 24, respectively...
...great questionings; but he said that he was glad to find it so, because an age of doubt is an age of advancement. More intelligent bases of belief are now demanded and old allegiances are being cast away. We cannot, however, prove spiritual truths of scientific argument to-day any more than we could yesterday. We do not believe in God because the theory of his existence is the best hypothesis to account for creation; but we believe in Him because our consciousness finds Him interwoven in our lives, because we find a power in us not of ourselves...
Theme X., "An Exposition," and Theme XI., "An Argument," will be due on April 3 and April 24, respectively...
...pleasure of the writer, Themes X. and XI. may be combined in one theme of at least TEN pages, comprising both Exposition and Argument, to be handed in on April...
...spite of the storm, a large audience assembled in Sever 11 last night to hear the strongest argument for free trade that has been made here for some time. The lecturer, Rev. John G. Brooks of Brockton, said that the argument that a high tariff raises wages is entirely untenable, and that private self-interest, not anxiety about the condition of the laborer, was the real motive of the protectionist. The general average of wages is entirely unaffected by protection, since the rate of wages depends only on the amount produced by the laborer. It is said that when wages...