Word: explains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chapter on Mr. Stevenson's Dreams," is an attempt to explain psychologically the remarkable dream which furnish Mr. Stevenson with material for his work. The writer takes good ground and his theory seems reasonable. Following this article, as if suggested by it is a short poem, "Dreams...
...others at a distance. This theory is difficult of belief, because in all recorded cases the ghost appears clothed, and it can hardly be conceived that an old hat has a spirit which can leave the hat and appear at a distance. An effort has been made to explain the apparitions by "telepathy," which may be defined as the ability of one mind to impress another without the use of the usual organs of sense. Another name for this is "thought transference." In all cases of visions four points are to be noted: the state of the mind...
...question of progress. What we wish is that Darwinism shall account not merely of the survival of the fittest, but also for the arrival of the fittest, and that it has not given us yet. Asa Gray said years ago that the survival of the fittest did not explain that inscrutable something which causes the fittest to appear. We are all here to demand loyalty to the self-evident truths on which science rests. The unsearchable wisdom of God in the source of all forms. It is safest for you to look to Germany and Scotland for fundamental philosophical truths...
...correspondent this morning undertakes to explain and justify the accounts of the University Boat Club which were published in our columns on the seventh instant. In doing so he accuses us of gross ignorance in regard to boat matters. While we are not ready to admit this assertion in full, we are perfectly willing to allow our correspondent a much larger share of knowledge of these matters than we possess. But he goes further and censures us for demanding an itemized account of such a figure as $693.48 for wages. We reserve the right to ourselves, and we think every...
...following letter will explain itself...