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...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...
...believed, and the experience of the past justifies the belief, that this society meets a real need in our college life, by offering an opportunity for personal worship. We hear much of atheism and religious indifference at Harvard, but we know how much these influences or conditions are exaggerated. We all know that there is among Harvard students a large class of earnest Christian men, accustomed to religious work at home and finding some especial religious work at college necessary to make their life at Harvard complete. For such men the Society of Christian Brethren was founded, and to such...
...observed at Oxford. More and more the religious tests of the professorships have been relaxed or removed, until they have almost entirely disappeared. The community would not tolerate an atheist as the Harvard president any more than an atheist would be tolerated as the vice-chancellor of Oxford, because atheism has not yet been tolerated in good society; but an important principle has now been vindicated for both institutions - the principle that learning, whether Christian or secular, must be co-extensive with present life, and must reflect the spirit of the times...