Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are various sects and doctrines in India, said Vivekananda, some of which accept the theory of a personal God, and others which believe that God and the universe are one; but whatever sect the Hindoo belongs to he does not say that his is the only right belief, and that all others must be wrong. He believes that there are many ways of coming to God; that a man who is truly religious rises above the petty quarrels of sect or creed. In India if a man believes that he is a spirit, a soul, and not a body...
...second belief is that the Corporation will do wrong if it leaves the students for whom Memorial has no place to be accommodated by private parties. Board equivalent to that in Memorial never could be obtained from private parties at the same price because, in the first place, the cost to each boarder in a small establishment must be greater than in a large establishment and, because, in the second place, an allowance must be made for profit. The two causes combined make the increase in price a very considerable item. Now to the student who must live...
...become in turn a teacher, a missionary of the higher culture, showing its beauty in his life no less than in the product of his mind, carrying that lamp of enthusiasm which you have kindled here into the dusky chambers of ignorance and into the drearier darkness of a belief in merely material prosperity. It is in performing this duty that "the teachers shall shine." Coming as I do from the oldest College in the country to the newest, I feel myself in some sort an accredited ambassador from the Past, the representative of tradition, the pledged advocated of those...
...consideration of this condition of affairs, Dr. Lawrence of Cambridge has written a letter to the senate of the university in which he shows what excellent facilities the university has for carrying on graduate work, and in which he expresses the belief that, if such work was started, a large proportion of the American students who now complete their training in German universities would be attracted. Dr. Lawrence favors the introduction of a new degree, such as the Doctorate of Philosophy...
...common belief among a certain class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...