Word: creation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...partly legendary. The great poem known as the Izdubar epic seems to be a solar myth and contains as an episode a deluge story practically the same as in the book of Genesis. There are also tablets recording the adventures of the goddess of love, the story of creation and the wars of the god. From the religion of the people come many tablets with hymns and psalms to the gods, some of the psalms having passages strikingly similar to the Biblical psalms. The theological system, with its greater gods and its demons, can be pretty thoroughly made...
...part rejected. The Reformation with Luther at its head was an instance of a radical change in popular opinion about the Bible. Science, too, has brought material changes; for example, the principles of geology have established the fact that the word "day," used in the description of the Creation, must be interpreted to mean an indefinite period of time. This is but one of the numerous changes in conception which science has necessitated...
...Davis arose and said: "Our alma mater was never so strong, never so full of vigor, although in her two hundredth year, as she is today. The older she grows the younger she is. She has come to what she is, because she is a growth and not a creation. She has grown to it. She is like a tree that spreads out its branches and extends its roots down deep into the earth. So has Yale done, and how rich are her fruits...
...bases of belief are now demanded and old allegiances are being cast away. We cannot, however, prove spiritual truths of scientific argument to-day any more than we could yesterday. We do not believe in God because the theory of his existence is the best hypothesis to account for creation; but we believe in Him because our consciousness finds Him interwoven in our lives, because we find a power in us not of ourselves. We have experience every day of the undying love of God. The music rendered by the choir was unusually good; it included the anthems "Hearken unto...
...economic effect of land tenures in England, Ireland, France and Germany-a subject from the standpoint of economic history, the most important in the whole field. Assistant-Prof. Taussig lectures upon the history of economic theory and upon the history of tariff legislation in the United States. The creation of suggestive environment and of real laboratories of economic science is clearly in the minds of the leaders of this active and flourishes school...