Word: grows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consequences of this festival will probably be very great, they will be felt chiefly through their influence upon education. The French Revolution will henceforth be held up to the schools and colleges of France, just as the American Revolution is in the United States. Hence succeeding generations will grow up filled with the spirit of republicanism, and the benefits of the great Revolution will be secured for future years...
...foundation of Christianity, Dr. Peabody said, is, according to the Pauline doctrine, a belief in one real God, in one real truth, and not in the mass of doctrine accumalated by years. Man should not have many beliefs, but much belief in something. Let the essentials for religious conviction grow less as man grows older, but let them grow larger; that would not show a decline of faith, but a renewed stability...
...admiration and awe. The vastness and solemnity of the structure before him, and the instinct sympathy of the young with the divine thought, unite to rouse reverence in him. If this spirit were permanent there would never be any gratifying of the lusts of the flesh. But as we grow old, we lose our delicate susceptibility to the breathing spirit of God. We quench the spirit often by indifference. A great many lives have no room for God. Their worldly ambitions quench the spirit. Power, reverence and joy all have their origin in this spirit of reverence...
...Slavery in its worst forms is prevalent all over the country. The masters have entire control over their slaves and often kill a dozen or more as a mere display of wealth. The condition of the women is so wretched that babies are often killed rather than allowed to grow up to misery...
...aroused the Negro to the necessity of self-assertion; and also because it has aroused the North to the work of education. Its effect is seen in the forty millions of dollars contributed by the North for this purpose since the war. The urgent and compelling circumstances which grow out of race prejudice have been a developing force in the Negro and have made his future a possibility. When we freed the slave we assumed the responsibility of making him an enlightened citizen. This is the work which the Hampton Institute is doing. But there are other influences which have...