Word: demands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There never can be one creed wide enough to cause dogmatic unity. Ritual unity demands universal assent to certain rites, but different men demand different rites. The same reason applies to ecclesiastical unity and its impossibility. The various divisions of the church express and satisfy the religious differences of men. The different sects are, however, slowly changing and approaching each other. All denominations are in a sense transient, reflecting as they do the necessities of the social mind and life, and they change with time. The extreme peculiarities are first modified, and thus it is that the sects are drawing...
...Douglas Sladen's new book, A Japanese Marriage, which has had an immense run in England, no novel except Trilby being more in demand at the libraries, has just been issued in America by Macmillan and Co. In it Mr. Sladen advocates the most advanced hedonistic theories, and declares himself a strong advocate of the "New Woman" movement. "Any age," he says, "is golden in which women are as freed...
...will be no more rowing at the club this fall. The club will be opened again in the spring as soon as the river is free from ice, probably about the last of March. Two or three new boats will be bought this winter, as there has been great demand for single wherries...
Everything is in readiness at Manhattan Field for the annual game of football which is scheduled to take place between Yale and Princeton next Saturday. The members of the advisory committee, owing to the unprecedented demand for seats, are confident that the attendance will reach record breaking figures this year...
...readers, naturally be regarded as rather "caviare" to the many. It is therefore remarkable that the whole of a large first edition of this book should be swept off immediately upon publication, and the publishers compelled to go to press at once with a second edition to supply the demand...