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...qualities. After the animal stage came the the lone discipline of the savage, leaving the relics of the savage in us But no matter what origin we give for our temptations, our construction is always this the animal, the savage and then the man. This analysis may make it clearer what our temptations...
...touch on morality, or Heaven, or God. It is the consideration of this moral life, which will advance ethics. More than discovering the character of good and evil, we must discover our own life character, and the secrets in the development of our moral life. For the sake of clearer knowledge, one is called upon to build up a physchology of the soul, a counterpart of metaphysics and theology. The two must be kept apart; it is the mixing that prevents progress. The question still entertained, is still one without an answer, is there a science of ethics...
...true God. It is the supreme triumph of his intellect, to will away the world and stand in the presence of his Creator. It is this singleness of purpose that gives to his personality its marvellous power over men, - the power of one who sees farther and clearer, whose life is wrapped up in the divine, whose meditations are of the Eternal. For it is the personality of Newman that is significant. As in his religious thought it constituted his ultimate sanction, so it will survive, when the creeds in which it wrought itself out have faded away...
...annual statement of the Treasurer of the University appears this year in a clearer and more interesting form than ever before. It shows that the University was pecuniarily prosperous in all departments last year, though as the president remarks all departments had "unsatisfied desires." It is always true of a great university that its income is never sufficient to meet all the wants which are constantly arising. The annual expenditure of Harvard has gone up to more than nine hundred thousand dollars, and yet much more than this could be advantageously spent. This enormous sum only covers the ordinary expenditures...
...tone in which Yale's action in respect to the Harvard ball games has been received at Cambridge, leads the News to briefly review some features of the case which may perhaps contribute to a clearer comprehension...