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...order to preserve as it were our very sanity (or, as Kant would say, the Unity of our self-consciousness), to regard all observed facts as conforming to laws. Yet these laws of Nature, which science studies, are the very creation of our own understanding acting upon the data of our senses. Such laws are not the laws of an unknowable real world at all. They hold only for the show-world of our experience. Our own understanding is therefore the source for us of all knowable rational truth...
...definite place in the history of the world, the prophets are elucidated by every investigation that sheds light on their times. This the inscriptions do more fully than any other line of study. By making the general course of contemporary history in western Asia clear, by furnishing precise chronological data, and by clearing up a multitude of references in the prophets to Babylonian and Assyrian matters, the cuneiform inscriptions are the best friend to the student of the prophets. The so-called "contract tablets," by revealing all phases of the social life at Babylon while the Jews were there...
...matter, and to find accurate figures which represent the past and present representation in numbers at Harvard and Yale. This has been an undertaking of considerable magnitude and for that reason the men interested have allowed the matter to run until the present issue when it is thought that data accurate and sufficient have been found to disprove the position taken by the writer of the Advocate's communication of four weeks...
...been just as fair to argue, before 1888, that Yale was becoming a mere side show compared with Harvard, as it is to conclude the Harvard is becoming provincial on account of the recent growth of Yale? Either argument is false and trivial because it is based on insufficient data. Why not rather view the subject from the point of view of several decades, as the CRIMSON does, instead of trying to find ground for alarm in the figures for five, or more correctly, three years? If there is "versatility of misapprehension" anywhere, it is not confined to the CRIMSON...
...last three years, during the present year, Harvard has gained not only more numerically, but more proportionately than Yale. The same is true when we consider the past ten years, the past twenty years or the past century. What right have we to argue on the paltry data of three years? What good will it do us to pick out of a hundred years the three in which accident gave Yale a greater proportional increase than Harvard and argue from this trifle that Harvard is going to the dogs? Why, if we take a broad view of the history...