Word: atheism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Colson, '89, for the negative declared that parochial schools were free and open to all denominations, and that all religious creeds were clamoring for parochial schools. Youths of to-day were growing up in infidelity and atheism, and that the institutions of the country depended upon the morality and integrity of the American, which in their turn would only be developed by religious teaching...
...have I witnessed a grander service than the daily morning chapel service heartily conducted by a thousand gentlemen. But as I look over this sea of faces, I ask myself, 'how shall I be brought into closer sympathy with these men?' It is absurd to talk of irreligion and atheism here; for a university is the thermometer of the community from which the students are recruited. There are many electiues here, but life is not one of them; we must live. Therefore let us live that largest life possible, the life of a true, christian gentleman. We are the leaders...
...inconsistent with the requirements of a liberal education. That Harvard is waking from this indifference, which so many of those who have never been in Cambridge, especially the editors of religious journals have bitterly decried, is a good sign. Certainly indifference is worse than either atheism or theism. Theist and atheist alike may well complain...
...Bayard Taylor's Views Afoot; Choate's Elements of English Speech; Crawford's American Politician; Reid's Life and Times of Sydney Smith; Max Muller's Biographical Essays; Edmund Yates' Fifty Years of London Life; Julian Hawthorne's Hawthorne and his Wife; Cable's Creole of Louisiana, Hedge on Atheism in Philosophy, Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature; Ainger's Charles Lamb...
...rash and eager generalizations and its exaggerated statements need strong and steady thinkers who were trained in the school of severe definitions and sharp conceptions and steady and clear-eyed good sense. The extravagant oratory, the sensational declamation, the encumbered poetry, the transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such as a dialogue of Plato, an oration of Demosthenes, a tragedy of Sophocles, or a book of Homer, or at least a letter of Cicero...