Word: belief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...subject is "Christian Theology in its Origin and Development." There are to be 45 lectures as follows: eight by Professor C. H. Toy h.'04 on "The Scriptural Basis of Christian Belief"; eight by Professor McGiffert, of the Union Theological Seminary, on "The Formative Period of Christian Thought"; eight by Professor E. Emerton '71 on "The Mediaeval Period"; eight by Professor E. C. Moore '78 on "The Modern Period"; eight by Professor W. W. Fenn '84 on "Constructive Principles of Christian Theology"; and five by Professor W. James M.'69 on "Religious Philosophy and Individualism...
Perhaps the most important mistake of the trade unions is the failure to recognize that widespread increase of production of the commodities of life is beneficial and should be encouraged instead of restricted. Another fallacy is the belief that money invested is not used for the public good as it would be if spent in the construction of a steam engine or a tenement house. The money might be better employed, it is true, but nevertheless it is increasing the working capital
...govern the amount of the wage that any individual can command in return for his services. It is true that in a large proportion to his qualifications, but at the same time there is much unjustified inequality in salary. A dynamical principle can be developed, in the lecturer's belief, that will govern this most interesting and vital social problem, and form a nucleus for a new science...
...receipt of $50,000 for the establishment of the Bullard Professorship of Neuro-Pathology. The gift was made by the widow of the late W. S. Bullard, East India Marchant of Boston "to record his unfailing interest in the relief of sufferers from nervous or mental disease, and his belief in benefits from future scientific research...
There are two sides to the polytheisms of the East, the pessimistic and the bright. The evils resulting from them are many, as the reasoned debauchcry of various rites and tenets shows; but still worse is the spiritual hopelessness which overshadows the followers of these religions. Their belief in a future life is gloomy. They consider the soul as without any communion with the beauty of nature. But there is a brighter side to these eastern cults. The long struggle for monotheism is still continuing. In some Hindu sects today one supreme, all-righteous god is conceived, and their rule...