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...delivered an address on the "Ethical Influences of University Life." Ethics are the outcome of human experience. Ideals, which are closely allied to ethics, are in their very nature unattainable, yet their moral effect is undoubted. One of the great ethical evils of college education is the tendency to isolate from the rest of the world. This possibly occurs through the tendency of modern professors to specialize and concentrate their studies in one subject. Yet it is not a discouraging fact, when we realize the unbounded good that the world has acquired from the great University teachers...
...Peabody took as his text, "I am the Door, John, 10:7. There are two kinds of religion which make their appeal to opposite sides of human life, one kind treats of life as at rest, the other kind treats of life as at rest, the other kind treats, of life as in motion said Dr. Peabody. One is the answer to the prayer for peace, the other is the answer to the prayer for power. One is the religion of repose, the other is the religion of action. One is the religion of age, the other of youth. According...
Much there may be in the order of the universe which still remains baffling and mysterious much postponement of knowledge in God's education of the human race; but what a step is taken towards sanity and self-control and peace of mind when one looks, upon the world as the scene of spiritual intention and desire, which give to its perplexing incidents their unity and worth. The religious life is like those Egyptian temples which in their outer courts looked through great free vistas to the fertile fields and the deep blue sky; but as the worshipers sought...
...potent period of history, such as the Civil War, cannot take this distant view of their own achievements and misfortunes. Yet there are many Americans who misconstrue the events of the war, or who seek to minimize its issues. That great struggle was the trial of an indictment against human freedom under the disguise of a contention for the disputed right of secession. But behind that long maintained and often honestly supported right to secede was the desire to continue the outgrown and detestable institution of chattel slavery. But for that too long tolerated refuge of oppression no secession could...
...next point which the lecturer treated at considerable length was the attitude of the ethical idealist who aims steadily at perfection, and cares more for the quality of life than for its duration. It is a great help to a soul which is beginning to realize that human life is not finite to come under the influence of great man who convinces everyone that his personality, at least, does not end with this life...