Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hear some fearful one exclaim, "Beware lest in avoiding Charybdis you run on Scylla. Beware! the philosophy of Herbert Spencer is anti-Christian." Brother, fear not. This philosophy follows the Christian precept; it is "all things to all men." Under its broad tent meet together Christian and Free-religionist, and enjoy a social chat on the philosophy of the unknowable, in place of the wonted clash of arms. Here too may be seen together the much-lamented combination of "cigarette and ulster" cheek by jowl with the ardent democrat, who sits with his feet on the table to cultivate equality...
...talking, one evening, with a member of the present Senior class about the relative merits of Spencer and Mill. I said, "On the whole, I prefer Mill. The stream of Spencer's mind, though being so broad, is of necessity shallow; while on the points that Mill has touched you feel that completeness characteristic of a master mind." "No," he said, " I prefer Spencer. His philosophy is cosmic. You feel a completeness of a higher kind here than in Mill." "By the way," said I, "what books of Spencer have you read?" "Well," he said, "I can't exactly...
...which shall be ready for use, and at the service of the Regatta Committee, four days before the 30th of June; to build a boat-house, with float for each crew, at such places as they shall designate, each building to be sixty-five feet long by twelve feet broad, and high enough for a man to stand in; to regulate the charges at hotels, and the fares of hacks, for the protection of spectators. The quarters of the crew will be the same as in 1873. The course has not yet been definitely determined upon...
...seeds of our broad-breasted earth...
...brow both broad...