Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...actions and characters are wholly determined by physical causation, we must regard sin as a disease or deformity, which may make us dangerous and disgusting, but cannot make us guilty. If we believe, on the contrary, that the law of our being is a spiritual law whose essence is freedom; if we believe that this natural freedom is abdicated when it is abused (and would that be freedom which could not be abused and abdicated?)-if we believe this, not only do we save our conscience by showing a rational ground for our consciousness of guilt; but we save...
...word freedom has many meanings. When who say that a stream is not free to flow because it is frozen, we do not speak of the same freedom as when we say that a Negro is not free to vote because he is intimidated. For the Negro may still vote if he has cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean...
...German university. It is something to be thankful for that Harvard has reached the high plane on which it now does its work, without impairing its efficiency as a university, and with a very great gain in the spiritual manhood of its faculty and in the manly freedom of its students in their personal spiritual development. Indeed, the day is already at hand when Harvard begins to lead the higher religious thought of the country...
...hesitate to say, in the world" Mr. Thwing is a Harvard graduate, and has written much on his Alma Mater. He has never hesitated to condemn her where she needed condemning, or to praise her where she has deserved praise, and it is just this openness and freedom that gives weight to what he writes. In the few lines I have quoted at the beginning of this paragraph, the may is an important word. Harvard merits the praise that is given her; but whether the substance of it is realized depends on the students themselves. As a college, Harvard offers...
Such are some of the conditions by which education in Russia is suppressed. It is a state of affairs, however, only consistent with the previous policy of Alexander III. The press has been for some time deprived of its freedom, and the fettering of education is merely in the natural sequence of events. But probably the government cannot go much farther in its course, at least with success. It has already reached the point which has proved fatal to most despotisms, and there seems to be no reason for expecting the government of the Czars to prove the exception...