Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...beliefs he holds strictly to the Romish principles of Purgatory and the Immaculate Conception, as well as to confession and absolution. His strongest belief is in the absolute power which is vested in the Church, represented by the Pope. In his Encyclics many of the evils of the times are attributed to placing State power above that of the Church. These writings maintain that teaching should be restricted, and that no philosophy or science should be taught which goes against the Church. The most important of these Encyclics, entitled "Libertas," appeared in 1888. In this letter the Pope protests against...
...management has evidently considered that men who work or sweat for Harvard are entitled to receive favors: for that they are doing more than giving football players good seats for their families or intimate friends is painfully plain to all of us. But in acting up to this belief the management has either discriminated most unfairly,--or has been guilty of a carelessness which is no less unfair. For while some prominent individuals have received 80 tickets and over in advance of the sale, others, almost as prominent, have received none--among them a member of last year's 'Varsity...
...Peabody first defined the meaning of the word religion. Religion is not mere belief, though it is often so regarded. Neither is religion a feeling of emotion for some particular phase of its manifestation. Religion is rather the "pressing forward toward the mark of our high calling in Christ Jesus our Lord." It is this intention, graven on the heart, that changes a man's life. It is a mistake to call any weak man well-meaning, since, in the higher and broader sense, if a man means well he will do well. A man interested in athletics shows...
...Shelley a personal belief in Pantheism...
...that it justifies itself, that we can not and ought not to resist it, that every one has a right to love, and that love has a right to everything. Such a conception was new in French literature. It was the outcome of Rousseau's theories and of the belief in the goodness of instinct. Later, this conception came to permeate French literature, and it was still later that we find in novels and plays the trio of the incomparable woman, the sublime lover and the tyrannical husband. A reaction against this conception took place in Flaubert and the younger...