Word: deeping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reacting out towards the universal interests and methods. The healthy specialism is always healthy itself in the absolute and universal truth. And now it is the privilege of festival times like those which our college is to keep to-morrow, that in them the past friends feel anew its deep relations to the whole of things. That which the clash and clamor of detail, the necessary absorption of busy life in its own operations has shut out, and silence presses in and makes itself heard. The universal claims, the special, the infinite and eternal, makes itself known to the temporary...
...been a very hard and tight idea of religious experience. It was a protest in behalf of the variety and spontaneity of spiritual life. It was a claiming of its rights for the soul of man. So it was in the region of experience, a true enlargement of the deep life of the college...
...which are the concentric spheres within which human nature lives, the successive opening of the partial into the universal and the temporary with the eternal, came. Not less, but more mysterious, and religious, is the little floating part when it bears the vast whole on every side, calling with deep voice, and opens its small existence, and is first filled and then absorbed by the complete, which is greater than the partialness. I know that you have felt how I have been circling about my text and just upon the point of touching it. What is this whole after which...
...enthusiasm of faith. As we loose our ship from any mooring of the past, to sail into any great uncertain ocean of the future, we are more ready to listen to the malarial voices which cry to us from the shore "Begone! Begone!" than to hear the great deep, with its unbounded inspirations bidding us "Come on! Come on!" Who of us does not know this temper of our good mother, and of how sedulously she instills it in her children...
Therefore it is that more than most institutions our university has lived under greater forces and for greater ends than she has habitually acknowledged to herself. Therefore, it is that in her commemorative season, our university is specially bound to look deep into her own life, to look broadly across her own history, and to see with unhesitating eyes what diviner significance than she has known has been in her. If when she only said to herself that she was training boys to make their living, giving them good habits, showing them how to study, now and then...