Word: doubts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Philanthropic friends of the University have always come forward when there was need, and have given generously to establish buildings of various kinds. The need of an infirmary, as we have said, is most urgent, and we cannot doubt that loyal graduates will now be found who will be glad to help materially in the establishment of this institution...
...here assume that there is such a thing as truth. There are two dogmas-absolutism and empiricism. The absolutists say that we can know when we know truth; the empiricists believe that we cannot know when we have grasped the truth. If a thing admits of no doubt it is because the intellect is illumined beyond question. We all feel that of some things we are certain. To this extent we are absolutists. Since we are absolutists by nature, we should believe the empiricist theory, and go on this basis. For nothing has ever been accepted as certain until...
...most excellent work it has been. By their energy and untiring enthusiasm they have brought the project into definite shape. The club has changed from a vague possibility into a probability, and almost into a certainty, and this has been done within a very few months. There is little doubt now that inside of a few years a University Club will be established at Harvard, and what has been a long-cherished ideal in the hearts of many graduates will have become a reality. The unanimity with which graduates and undergraduates have backed up the scheme leaves no room...
...into Judea, said Dr. Moxom, all the apostles protested save one, Thomas, who is often called the doubter. He was the one to say it was better to go, that they might die with Christ. Yet Thomas, a truehearted and faithful follower of Jesus, often seems to have doubted. But sincere doubt is never a crime. The world has moved forward through doubters. When the heart is sincere, the logic of conscience becomes at last the logic of understanding...
...whole his best achievement, and his early stories are in general his best. Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are in Mr. Copeland's opinion at the top of American writers of the short story. Miss Wilkins is undoubtedly the more dramatic of the two, but equally without doubt Miss Jewett writes a better style and gives a larger, wiser, truer view of New England country people and New England country life. The lecture was followed with a reading of Miss Jewett's story entitled "Fame's Little...