Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have seen, he said, that the study of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics shows to us the presence of a Creative Reason in the sky and stars and earth Man can interfere, for evil or for good, with the work of physical forces, no changing their law but bringing them into new combinations. We must therefore try to understand man's nature. As a first step we must learn to know inferior living things. Plants and animals should be studied in their tree life is the woods and fields. All men can have some practical knowledge of this wild life...
...person who is at all observant of nature and who cares for its aspects as something more than helps or hindrances to his own particular designs, cannot have failed to be impressed in some degree by the mathematical precision displayed by every particle in earth, air and water. A few thoughts on this invariable order will not, however, fully comprehend its grandeur. It is not at first easy to realize that every law, from highest to lowest is perfectly fulfilled in the physical structure of the stars. To many men it is not sufficient to say that of course...
...sympathy. Follow the leading of your own enlightened conscience by letting no cumulative force of example or persuasio turn you one hair's breadth from what you regard as your duty; by making your own way through college a right line, a straight line in the direct way from earth to heaven. Make your uttered profession whenever your silence would mean assent or indifference. Show your colors and stand by them but do not parade them out of season. Do nothing for effect; always act your Christian self. Shun religious cliques...
...teeth. The skeletons were those of men averaging 5 feet 2 inches in height, the tallest being 6 feet 2 inches. The burials were from three to five feet below the surface. The skeletons rested upon hard clay. Around them had been rudely set up flat river stones, then earth had been filled in, and over all broad, flat stones placed. In this rude incitement their bodies have reposed for centuries. There are evidences that the men had died in conflict. About the neck of one of the child skeletons was found a necklace of bear's teeth...
...Greeks of Homer's time, regarding the gods was, in one way, a reflection of their own social life. Their gods were not highly idealized, nor were they free from mortal passons and weaknesses. They feasted, hunted, and made long voyages after the custom of people on the earth...