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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When this course of lectures was first started the division line between natural and revealed religion was much more strongly marked than it is at present. Natural and revealed religion differ only in the point of view. Natural religion has to deal with all religion that exists, while everything which touches the sympathies is classed under revealed religion...
...contrasts are more striking than parallels-if, indeed, when we treat of so wayward a thing as human nature it be possible to find two lines of life that run parallel-I turned from him to Petrarch and the sentimentalists. The comparison enables us to feel more keenly the difference between real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national as his, but which fails...
...exact sciences differ so much from actual work in the outside world that training in the former seems to make a man useless for the latter, for exact science calls for consideration of every detail, while in life we have as a rule no further calculations than rough approximations of probabilities. This fact tends to make the man trained in science hesitate when any question comes up, weighing so long the advantages and disadvantages of any plan of action that he cannot bring himself to act in any definite way. What then are the advantages of a scientific training, what...
...prospectus of elective courses offered to the junior and senior classes during the college year, 1894-5, at Yale appeared yesterday. Its contents and arrangement differ materially from those of former years. In future the junior classes will select not less than fifteen and not more than eighteen hours of elective work per week. In the year following they will select for their senior studies a number of hours per week which, in addition to those chosen and passed without conditions at the end of junior year, will bring the total number up to thirty hours. The class...
...said that modern crities are altogether too apt to overlook the difficulties which the early painters had to encounter when they first started the Renaissance movement. People find fault with their pictures because they differ from modern paintings, but they do these old masters injustice to compare them with modern artists. Even if they are not understood now-a-days the Italians were skilful painters for the times in which they lived; in fact, one of the chief causes for this lack of appreciation is that the old masters worked under the inspiration of religion, while nature was a comparatively...