Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Since the noblest life on earth is always human life, the literature which deals with human life must always be the noblest literature; and, since the individual human life must always have a distinctness of interest, which cannot belong to any of the groups of human life, biography must always have a charm which no other kind of history can rival...
...great popular movement, must be regarded as a powerful and significant factor in the tremendous problems of social life, and the opinions and character of these students can not fail to be of great interest to all who sympathize with the oppressed and down-trodden of the earth...
...produce. This is a "consummation devoutly to be wished," but which we can never expect, for the mercantile spirit that is so powerful in America to-day is not the one on which a philosophy that is destined to permeate all the peoples of the earth can be built. America has yet to appreciate the fact that it has much to learn, and is, therefore, at the very foot of the ladder, and with no prospect of rising until it feels that its wonderful growth in wealth and power, although unexampled, is still not the only requisite to perfection...
Note-taking like every other great system beneficial to humanity gives rise to many evils. The note, however, is one of these and deserves little regard on the face of the earth. Another and perhaps the crying evil of the system is the "syllabi" published in pamphlet form by the Cambridge printers, and issued at prices which would put to blush the projectors of an average edition de luxe...
...carefully observed by Prof. Rogers and his assistants. As our local experiments in explosiology are supposed to have brought into prominence this branch of science, a description of the apparatus used by Prof. Rogers, seems of interest. A cup of Mercury is placed either directly upon the earth or upon a stone shaft which rests on bed rock. Upon the surface of the Mercury is thrown the image of illuminated pin holes in a metal card; or, in some instruments, any other image is used such as the reflection of micrometer lines in a star. Any change in the surface...