Word: callings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubted if they could be separated. But my words will be of little use unless they refute this common idea. If then it does not consist in fine things does knowledge fulfill all the requirements of culture? Many persons are perfect store-houses of condition whom we would not call cultured. The first incentive of knowledge is the desire to apply it, a char acteristic of the Anglo-saxon race, and while I am not disposed to stigmatise it in itself, yet when we come to consider science in itself, utility is not the thing to be taken into account...
...respectfully suggest to the manager of the eleven the advisability of taking a few hours from his valuable time to call upon various members of his class and soliciting subscriptions. The debt will not be removed by inactivity nor by the placing of a book for subscriptions upon the counter of a Cambridge tradesman. The manager is either neglecting his duty or is ignorant of just what is incumbent...
...became strongly affected with atheistic tendencies and undertook after a course of very serious and extensive studies to spread his doctrines through lecturing. Professor Adler has gathered about him a large congregation of eminently intelligent people in New York City. Whereas, it was his original ambition and aim to call into life a new religious order if atheists may properly be so called, the assembly that meets to hear him every Sunday morning in New York consists mainly of liberal people with distinctly agnostic tendencies whose chief interests are however centered on improvement of the social order...
GLOBE THEATRE MEETINGS: All who can take tickets for distribution on Saturday and Sunday are requested to call at 39 Thayer to-day, between...
...movement on foot to erect a statue of Heine in Dusseldorf is meeting with great opposition by the students of Bonn who call themselves "Christian Socialists...