Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...question the truth of what it has been taught to accept as dogma. On the one hand, science, made confident by its recent achievements, assails the very foundations of the Christian religion, rejecting with scorn testimony and proof which require standards of judgment other than those of the exact sciences; while, on the other, literature, or rather the champion of the "literary theory of culture," refuses to accept a religion which cannot be justified by man's own powers of reasoning. Just as the word "culture" in its present sense is of very recent origin, so the movement, or whatever...
...exact in which they lived...
There are also likely to be several other advantages, some of which I will enumerate. The tutors will pay more attention to the system and the matter of their lectures. For the sake of exact scholarship, many things must always be given in the class-room of interest only to the specialist; if others find these notes too soporific for endurance, they will have their time for more general study in their rooms, such as the tutors may advise...