Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...real basis of morals is insight into the reality of human life as life. This insight implies the determination to treat human life as real. And this insight is not mere emotion, but calm determination...
...superficial commendation, as also has the New York Times. Neither paper, however, has touched upon the real point of discussion involved in the matter. The Spirit of the Times also with a somewhat superfluous fervor shouts out its approval. "Their stated facts," it cries, "are indisputable; their arguments calm, clear, and concise; their conclusions unavoidable. The conference which suggested the ideas, and the man who clothed them with words, have equal reason to be proud of their work. An overwhelming majority of all those persons whose character and standing make their approval of value, will certainly extend to these regulations...
...task of awakening every student in case of fire, but under the rapid strides of improvement in our government we can confidently look forward to the time when this will form a regular part of the duties of some official. Until that time we beg our "anxious friend" to calm himself and to trust to the natural wakefulness of students as a safety against fire...
...what those needs are. We must use our own judgment on those points and our judgment is very apt to differ from the judgment of the outside world. A university should occupy a position above the petty disputes of the time and should use its influence to calm those disputes and lead back those engaged in them to a calm contemplation of their demands and of the excesses into which these demands have led them...
...sharp conceptions and steady and clear-eyed good sense. The extravagant oratory, the sensational declamation, the encumbered poetry, the transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such as a dialogue of Plato, an oration of Demosthenes, a tragedy of Sophocles, or a book of Homer, or at least a letter of Cicero, an ode of Horace, or a book of Virgil to quiet the fevered spirit...