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...western peoples considered Christianity to be the only religion and that non-religion and irreligion alone stood opposed to it. Happily Christians now see that Asia, not Israel whence Christianity sprung, is the mother of religions and that there are other vital faiths besides their own. The East has clung to the pantheistic and polytheistic of these beliefs, but the West has developed monotheism of which Christianity is the highest form...
...game was a hard-fought contest from start to finish and the players clung to each other so closely and were so aggressive in intercepting passes that little opportunity was given for team play. Several times after Griffiths and Burnham had by clever dodging, dribbled the ball the length of the floor, no one was able to free himself to try for a goal. Griffiths missed every free try in the first half, but in the second half steadied down and threw eight. Amberg did the most brilliant shooting, and scored two very difficult shooting, and scored two very difficult...
...poems which have come down to us from the early races we see that there is a strange confusion between the ideas held as to the future state and the actual usages contemporary with them. This is explained by the fact that men in all time have clung to usages long after the ideas on which they are based have passed away...
...method of coaching, it is understood, will be that of the old school, from which the younger generation of oarsmen at Harvard has long departed, but which has been clung to by Oxford and Yale...
...Virgil was interesting to him only because they led him through the universe. But Petrarch thought of the present world, the life of to-day, and the classics were interesting to him as expressions of men's lives at that time. Petrarch was a "humanist." Dante still clung to the religious beliefs and drawbacks of mediaeval times...