Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same gentleman advise me if he speaks officially or in the spirit of "the universal priesthood of believers" when he writes: "But if religion means an appreciation of the works of nature and a feeling of admiration for their creator which manifests itself not in blind worship of a concept set up by some one else but in a search for the true Ultimate whatever it be, the regard for the rights and opinions of the fellow men, the desire to lead good, clean, useful lives, and the feeling that each should do his bit for the betterment of society...
...bigotry has been and is one of the many factors which make her the leading University of the country. But if religion means an appreciation of the works of nature and a feeling of admiration for their creator which manifests itself not in the blind worship of a concept set up by some one else but in a search for the true Uultimate whatever it be, the regard for the rights and opinions of our fellow men, the desire to lead good, clean, useful lives and the feeling that each should do his bit for the betterment of society--then...
...religion, with special reference to mysticism in the East and the West; Section 3, philosophy of mind, with special reference to the nature of the community between minds; Section 4, open session with the following topics suggested; relation of biology and metaphysics, realism and idealism, value and existence, the concept of personality...
...sphere, set forth these views in a conversation with a representative of The Christian Science Monitor during which he commented upon the recent expression, made in Nebraska, of a University graduate who asserted that his university had failed him by providing a background of idealism when he needed a concept of realism; by turning him out, in company with 1000 other young men and women, without practical advice, with minds trained in methods of study, crammed full of history, philosophy, and theory, but absolutely untrained to meet the problems of life. This with the result that they were completed...
...Sheldon's concern with living speech manifested itself in the foundation of the American Dialect Society, of which he was the first Secretary, later the President. As President of the Modern Language Association of America, in 1901, he advocated a broadening of the concept of Philology. His love of letters appears in his long devotion to the great poet of Italy; he was from early times a member, and for a while the President, of the Dante Society of Cambridge. The articles which he published from time to time dealt for the most part with elusive problems of language...