Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...simple things. Possessing this faculty our present life is not an isolated one, short and uncertain, but merely a part or beginning of the eternal life. But without the consciousness of God's presence in all nature, life loses its purpose and degenerates into a cold, hopeless existence...
...should awaken enthusiasm for incorruptible and undefiled city government in the mind of every Harvard student. It is said that Philadelphia is suffering at present from an epidemic of corruption and jobbery in municipal affairs; that the governing "ring" is so strongly intrenched, it is well-nigh impossible and hopeless to dislodge its members. The task of exposure, however, has been undertaken. The editor of City and State, Mr. Herbert Welsh, is carring on the municipal crusade in Philadelphia in as dauntless a fashion as that set in New York by our own Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Welsh will deliver...
...modern warships. They are not essentially seamen like the Japanese. China is divided into provinces differing from one another in speech and manners. In fact, there is no Chinese nation. Add to this lack of homogeneity and cooperation a total lack of discipline, and you have a hopeless condition of affairs...
...recent years the attempt has been made by all the better college dailies to alter the proportion of news matter in favor of the various forms of scholarly activity. The attempt has, we think, met with considerable success; but it is hopeless to expect that through the news columns of a daily can be made to appear the relative importance which intellectual work plays in the life of a college. The public, which draws inferences from the proportion of space devoted to different subjects, must come to false conclusions; and none will be more false than that which makes little...
...Cicero, both of whom agreed with the views of Caesar. Marcus Aurelius was a more cautious stoic, never directly offering any view upon immortality. The influence which these men held upon Roman thought was very great. The conflicting tendencies of the religion of the second century were mentioned. The hopeless cynicism of Pliny was contrasted with the faith of Vergil, who had a deep consciousness of the ethical demand for retribution...