Word: factor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...natural religion as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned men." Dr. Gottheil chose as the part of this subject on which he wished particularly to speak the school of natural religion in ancient Israel. The fact, said the speaker, that natural religion was a factor of no mean importance in the growth of revealed religion has hardly been well understood. The Bible used to be thought of as a unity, but modern criticism has shown that it now contains several books which certainly did not originally form a part of it, but were the product...
...article in Harper's Monthly by Chauncey M. Dephew, Yale '56, on Yale as a factor in American life, will be followed by an article on Harvard by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, and one on Princeton by Professor William M. Sloane...
...than a duty.- John Sherman in Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1889, p. 931; Hamilton's Works, Vol. III., p. 246; (d) The beet-sugar industries of other countries have been built up by the bounty system.- Encyclopedia Brit., Vol. XXII., p. 628; (e) state aid has been an important factor in building up other industries both at home and abroad.- Lalor's Cyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 818; (f) a bounty would encourage the domestic production of sugar from beets and sorghum.- John Sherman in Congressional Record...
...unable to support himself. Instead of giving him rations, he should have been given land and farming implements and obliged to earn his own living. In spite of these great disadvantages the Indians are slowly improving, and General Armstrong believes that the western railroads have been the most important factor in civilizing the wilder tribes, for these railroads naturally bring civilization with them. The lecturer also gave words of praise to the missionaries for the work they have done and are doing. The Indian, contrary to general opinion, is deeply religious, and all that is necessary is to exchange...
...neighbors in every respect-in power, in arts, in literature. Twenty-five years ago she was almost the toy of her neighbors. Now,' however, owing to her powerful army and navy and to a liberal policy, she can be fairly called the leading state in Europe. Another important factor in this resuscitation was the growth of national feeling. The Germans of all ranks and conditions-prince and burgher, wealthy and poor-all began to be filled with a desire for union, for a strong centralized government. The causes of the growth of nationality lie in the political events...