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...abundant the life of the nation and of every individual in it, to make the forces of nature contribute more and more to the welfare of man, to so purify and strengthen democracy as to establish it in all Christian countries, and to call the American people in ever clearer tones to that righteousness which alone can exalt a nation...
...historical beginnings of the theory of immortality were crude. In the primeval savage tribes, it existed in the belief in ghosts who more or less directly influenced the lives of mortal men. As the intellect of mankind developed through the ages, so this theory of immortality grew and became clearer,--showing itself in the religion of the Hebrews, the mythology of the Greeks, and reaching its culmination in Christianity...
...immediate danger to slavery, came in the triumph of cotton and slavery in the Mexican war, the Kansas Bill, and the partiality of the Supreme Court to the South. When at last it grew clearer that the slave labor could not compete on equal terms with free labor and that it was impossible to give salve labor a free chance in the territories, the theory of secession became at once the foremost subject of discussion. So perfect was the unanimity and solidity of the people, that within a hundred days from the election of Lincoln they were seated...
Equally interesting, or even more so, is the sea with its stretch of coast line. Grander views may be had in other parts of the country, but nowhere can a clearer insight be had into the history of the action constantly taking place between sea and land. A little thought will show that natural or geological causes have a great influence on the action of man himself. Why, for example, did the Pilgrims place their settlement and their college in so flat and uninteresting a spot as Cambridge? Simply because elsewhere the land was so covered with glacial stones that...
These lectures were founded by the late Lord Gifford, judge in the high court of justice in Scotland, who gave 80,000 pounds at his death to the Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Saint Andrews, in order that they might arrive at a clearer conception of natural religion. The lectures, last year, were very successful and are now being printed. The first half, under the title of "The World and the Individual," by Professor Royce, will appear in a few days and will be used in his courses. The subjects of the lectures are always the same, but different...