Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next editorial the Advocate declares that a knowledge of the opinions of Mr. Herbert Spencer is far more essential to a person who "pretends to a knowledge of Philosophy" than an acquaintance with the works of Aristotle and of Plato. I should have fancied that this was still an open question; but as I am no great philosopher, and as advanced thought is at this moment extremely fashionable, I will not venture to differ from your advanced contemporary...
...hear some fearful one exclaim, "Beware lest in avoiding Charybdis you run on Scylla. Beware! the philosophy of Herbert Spencer is anti-Christian." Brother, fear not. This philosophy follows the Christian precept; it is "all things to all men." Under its broad tent meet together Christian and Free-religionist, and enjoy a social chat on the philosophy of the unknowable, in place of the wonted clash of arms. Here too may be seen together the much-lamented combination of "cigarette and ulster" cheek by jowl with the ardent democrat, who sits with his feet on the table to cultivate equality...
...University needs a good many things. I used to think it needed praying for, but the disappearance of the ulsters has reassured me on that score. The pressing need at this time is a course in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer. For this there arises periodically, at about this time, a dolorous wail, as of a child for the bottle, in the College papers, which I propose to forestall this time with some considerations of a lighter sort...
...whenever I breathe the names of the philosophers I have been so laboriously mastering (?) for the last three years, whether it is Noah Porter or Descartes, whether among my friends or in the "causeries de has bleus" which I attend, I am immediately confronted with the bete noir of Herbert Spencer. Like Banquo's ghost it will not down, but still provokes me with its taunting mystery...
...History of King Arthur," and Mr. Furnival's edition of "Le Morte Arthur," by Gautier's Mapier, who wrote it as a conclusion to his account of the adventures of the Holy Graal. This last edition is valuable, because the Preface, and an essay on Arthur, by the late Herbert Coleridge, contain much interesting matter relative to the history of these legends. From Mr. Furnival's Preface are derived most of the facts embodied in this article...