Word: existing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Lyon was then introduced and gave in substance the following address: Great museums exist already with Semitic departments, but none has hitherto been founded which collects objects directly or indirectly due to Semitic thought or which cast light on Semitic history. We have already many of the finest specimens of the more ancient art and literature, introducing the visitor to worlds of thought the existence of which he did not know before. The objects in the museum may be grouped into three classes, originals, photographs and plaster reproductions...
Much has been written as to whether morality can exist apart from religion. Mr. Matthew Arnold, taking a middle position, defines religion as morality touched with emotion. It is undoubtedly true that if there were no religion a minority would possess a certain kind of morality, but true morality can not exist without religion...
...Mather Gr., the speaker of the afternoon, then followed. He said: There now exist some 200 odd lines only of the poems of Solon, 20 of which have just been found. Probably Plutarch possessed a complete set, and and Diogenes and Diodorus another...
...fact that others cannot, or least do not rush to the first sale of tickets, is at best a business to be ashamed of; but carrying it on as a student among students, setting the value of a small gain above a regard for common kindness that should exist between man and man, to say nothing of college mates, is contemptible. The only excuse that ever exists for the practice, namely that it is fair to charge some commission for the trouble taken in getting tickets, is none at all in the case of students. Nothing is ever gained...
...theoretical knowledge to the seeming world of sense and understanding in space and time, we are yet morally bound to postulate that the real world of the things in themselves is a Divine Moral Order; i. e., we are and absolute Moral Order were known to us to exist...