Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to his subject matter. Cicero says Socrates brought philosophy down from heaven to earth. Socrates did not agree with his predecessors who tried to solve the material universe; all this was folly and mere fancy to him. He believed that the natural sciences were reserved by the gods for themselves and that all attention should be placed on that which deals with conduct. He was not a systematic thinker like Plato and Spinoza. His great achievement was that he taught the importance of clearness in thinking on ethical questions which is called his inductive process of thinking...
...position of an object is always best for observation because there the atmospheric obstruction is least. By varying the angle at which the mirror is hung, an object may be kept within the field for two hours, or even more. This motion is regulated by clockwork, which counterbalances the earth's advance through space...
According to this hypothesis, the earth's crust has been estimated to be from forty to two hundred millions of years old, and since organic life would have been impossible before the formation of this crust, we find the time that animal life has been upon the globe. Man may have existed between one and two millions years ago. To enable the audience to appreciate the length of time that human beings have lived, the lecturer said that it bore the same relation to what is commonly known as the historic period as the whole life...
...German troops had closed in about Paris, the French troops were for the most part employed outside the line of forts which surrounded the city, and were protected only by a slight barricade. These barricades were formed of masonry and were intended to have been surmounted by bags of earth to break the force of the shells, but as time failed for the completion of the works, bags of potatoes taken from the peasants who were hurrying into Paris, were used instead of bags of earth, and so great was the lack of provisions among the soldiers that they were...
...hesitated. So in the world to-day, men of every station have their ideals, but when they find between them and the fulfilment of these ideals long years of drudgery and self-sacrifice, they hold back from the struggle and are content to remain among the commonplace things of earth. Men can never be what God wishes them to be until they take Christ's saying into their hearts-"I must go up to Jerusalem," Before the closing hymn, Mr. Skinner of the Law School sang the tenor solo "O Saviour, hear us," by Gluck...