Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obedience, to which the life is bound, a service which it is compelled to render, or more truly as the existence within an element which is its natural supply and good. Just think how numerous the institutions are. Each man must feel about him the grasp of the total humanity to which he belongs. If he does not, he becomes inhuman. Each truth must be aware of the great whole of truth which it utters; if it does not it becomes untrue. Each star must quiver with the movement of the system, or it is a mere waif and stray...
...university which we profoundly love has grown towards, and shall continually grow more and more into a full obedience to the great masteries, a full acceptance of the great elemental influences and supplies on which all life must feed, into the fuller and fuller relation to God, and universal human life which can alone make her and keep her what she ought to be. Let us see, with a hurried glance at some points in her history, whether there is any light upon the question which must rest heavily on many of her children's minds...
First, then, it is hard to realize, although history clearly tells of it, how definite, and limited, and special, was the foundation of Harvard College. It lay like a weird ball of light in the intention of its founders. It had no relations with any region of human life except its own. To make ministers of a certain faith and of a certain order, that faith conceived of as the final expression of the truth of God; that order accepted as the appointed means for men's salvation to create certain types of experience, to protect an acknowledged system...
...history of the college since that time of its foundation has been the story of a constant opening of this intense and limited and narrow life to the great human world by which it was surrounded. The years have brought perpetual enlargement. That narrowness and specialness of the 17th century Puritanism, has shown how healthy it was, even in its separation, by the capacity which it has developed to bind once more with larger human life, and make itself more and more truly human...
...Order of the Gospel Justified." "Sundry ministers of the Gospel in New England" answered him. The question was who should be counted true subjects of the Christian sacraments. When Increase Mather, with his son Cotton was defeated, it was a sign that the earnestness which existed in human life at-large had made itself felt within the church, and that the hard, close envelope of church discipline had been broken open...