Word: decaying
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...service of no little consequence, for fine teeth contribute much to the comeliness of any human face, because the delightful human gesture called a smile usually uncovers the teeth. Next comes the process of filling or stopping the second teeth, which arrests that mysterious and perverse disintegration or decay of the bony part of the teeth which is called caries. I have already mentioned the great improvement in the materials and apparatus for filling which chemistry and physics have combined to provide. The extraction of teeth is a confession of professional failure. The dentist has not succeeded in keeping them...
...first lecture Professor Zueblin, dwell on the importance of individuality in a man's religion. In the second and third lectures he spoke of the broad realm of orthodoxy and of the modern decay of authority, and at the next lecture he took up the responsibility of the church in its effects on the happiness of a perfect moral society. Last Monday Professor Zueblin said that the great trouble of our modern life is its fragmentary character and that the best way of securing the wholeness of life is to satisfy these six great wants of human society: wealth, health...
...religion is its well-marked individuality, and set forth the chief agencies that are instrumental in moulding a child's cenception of religion. In the following two lectures the broad realm of orthodoxy, which even extends to politics, social customs, and economics, was forcefully propounded, and the decay of authority was made evident by examples of the power of the parent over the child, the husband over the wife, and employer over the employee. Dwelling on the responsibility of the church last Monday, Professor Zueblin stated that the duty of religion is to moralize the six wants which make towards...
Professor Zueblin in his characteristic manner showed by a brief survey of history from feudal times, how authority in its various phases has gradually but markedly decayed. The decay is evident in the authority of the parent over the child, in the authority of the husband over his wife, in the power of the employer over the employee. It is but a logical, natural, and desirable growth. What is now desired to complete the advance is an increase in spiritual authority, for which the prospect is bright...
Again in religion the same decay is apparent. The light is gradually dawning upon us by the spread of learning and the growth of individual criticism. The light is gradually dawning upon us by the spread of learning and the growth of individual criticism. The truth is gradually replacing creed and dogma, and we are no longer bound by the letters of a back. Christ, whether regarded as divine, or human, or mythical, nevertheless stands revealed to us as a great example to be followed through all generations. He has left his impression upon us, an undying impression which ever...