Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last group, except 15 and 25, are courses of research. Geology 4, elementary half course under professor Shaler. This course can be taken by seniors as an extra only. It gives a general knowledge of the subject, and includes lectures on the origin and nature of the earth's crust, continental and mountain fold, volcanoes, dykes, glaciers, etc. Goology 4a, elementary half course, supplementary to Geology 4; consists of laboratory and field exercises with occasional lectures. Course 8, a starred course, treats of general critical geology, under Professor Shaler, Assistant Professor Davis and Dr. Wolff. The work consists of lectures...
...chapel of the Divinity School last evening upon the "Ancient Scandinavian Belief in a Future Life." The speaker said that the common Viking belief was that the dead were to remain forever in their graves, or at best would inhabit a gloomy hall of death beneath the earth. Many of the higher families, on the other hand, believed that in the fifth of the heavenly regions was a grand palace called Walhalla, so lofty that one could scarcely see the top, with five hundred and forty doors, and with walls hung about with shields and skins, with rafters covered with...
...most interesting of the Scandinavian stories to us is the one in which a great flood covers the earth and eagles hunt for fish on the tops of tall mountains. Finally the waters ran off the green lands in torrents and left a regenerated world. In fact, the influence of Christianity is plain in many other of the latter beliefs and legends of the ninth and tenth centuries when the end of the world was momentarily expected...
...more importance than all other living creatures we have no reason for believing that he alone is destined to eternal life. The speaker then showed that there is imminent in the universe an infinite, immaterial Spirit. This Spirit, acting through evolution, has produced all creatures living upon this earth and last of all created mankind, a race of beings possessing immortal souls and a code of morals teaching them to live in harmony with one another. And, finally, since the same action of the same Spirit has created both the human soul and the moral sense, we have every reason...
...various forms in which matter exists are the results of different influences brought to bear upon the primary substance. This theory was superseded by the four element theories of the school of Aristotle which taught that all matter was the result of the combination of tire, water, earth and air This theory held during the Middle Ages and was the inspiration of the Alchemists who thought that, since all the metals were composed of these four elements and no others, it would be possible to convert the baser metals into the precious ones by a simple change. The decomposition...