Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yesterday's lecture M. Boutroux pointed out that the three postulates of science are: a world real, well ordered, and admitting of novelties; but science cannot account for these, save by referring them to chance, whereas we have seen that human consciousness, considered as feeling, attributes a true meaning to the word reality. An analogous justification of the postulate of orderly relation is supplied by another form of human consciousness, intelligence. By this is meant, not scientific intelligence, but living intelligence, which creates relations of harmony between real beings...
...death of Professor Morris Hicky Morgan '81, the University has lost a valued administrator, scholar, teacher, and friend. Active in these fields, as well as in the capacity of editor and author, his life was constructive and his work full of human sympathy. Harvard has lost a devoted scholar, learned not only in the classics, but keenly alive to contemporary activities. It is difficult for those who did not know him to appreciate how deeply his death will be felt...
Like Pascal, Comte starts with a consideration of human nature; Pascal, however, thinks there is in human nature something which surpasses nature proper and directs man towards God; where as Comte considers human nature self-sufficient, and belongs to the category of men who follow the advice of Voltaire; "We ought to cultivate our goodness...
...apologist for religion; he aimed not only at writing an abstract defence of religion, but also at converting the atheists and re-establishing true Christianity against those who partially confused it with paganism. The originality in Pascal's point of view lies in this: from a consideration of human nature he shows that communion with the Christian God is necessary for a man to re-establish harmony within his being. Thus a rational connection is shown between man's nature and his spiritual life. This view we must keep, and adhere to the supreme idea that...
Next to the opportunity for contact with humanity, the excitement of the profession offers the greatest appeal. The doctor must every day cut the pack of humanity, and his unfailing optimism shows that he usually turns up what is best in human nature. The quality of experience is as important as its quantity...