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Word: belief (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...evening. He referred to the mass of material which the Society for Psychical Research have laboriously collected and sifted and stated that in his opinion these facts must no longer be neglected by the scientific man. The popular mind demands facts and objects to which it may pin its belief; miracles no longer furnish such realities. In the religion which 50 years or so hence will be grasped by the popular mind will be this necessity for something to take the place of these old objects. Why may not these facts be those of modern spiritualism? Thus the investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor James at the Foxcroft Club. | 5/1/1891 | See Source »

...Phillips Brooks conducted the service at Appleton Chapel last night. He took as his text Mark ix: 23, "If thoucanst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth," and spoke on the nature of belief. He pointed out that the attitude toward Christ of the father of the child which had the dumb spirit is exactly our own. It is to Christ that the world turns for the solution of its troubles, and yet that solution has not come. It is because there is the same lack of complete faith which there was in the father when Christ addressed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 4/13/1891 | See Source »

...that in general the number of college-bred men in America in proportion to the population has been growing less, and that the too high standard has been the cause of this defection; fourth, that at present there is a tendency to idle away a year in a vain belief in the good effect of a dreamy culture; fifth, that lowering the degree emphatically does not lower the standard of education; sixth, that in considering the question, we should consider not merely our own part of college but the general effect on the system of national education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/20/1891 | See Source »

...Jews believed in common with most nations that-if God were offended by disobedience proper relations might be resumed with Him by means of sacrifices. The Jews however had a more complete and symmetrical belief than other peoples. Instead of many temples and priests, we find but one temple and but one priest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference. | 2/25/1891 | See Source »

...Professor Cooke's collection is a meteorite which is probably the oldest ever preserved. It was discovered by Professor Putnam of the Peabody Museum on the altar of one of the mounds in the Little Miami Valley. The discovery of this stone has confirmed many students in the belief that these meteorites were worshipped by the mound builders, and that the worship of skystones was the earliest form of idolatry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Cooke's Work. | 1/28/1891 | See Source »

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