Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study of medical science is human biology in its widest sense. New fields are constantly opening, as in bacteriology. Thorough scientific knowledge is demanded to-day. A preliminary academical training is very desirable. The two sayings of "Room on top," and "Go West" are of little value. There is room in the lower half of the profession. Over half of medical practitioners are successful. As in law, the man who has an air of confidence, a taste for research and knowledge, a practical mind and a kind heart, will gain success...
Accordingly, Harvard "offers greater and better facilities for study, and we can blame only human nature, if parent, guardians and ambitious young men go where they can get the most for their time and money...
...leadership to-day. The country will always feel the effects of the pusilanimity of the ministers of fifty years ago in the anti-slavery agitation. Many reforms await the hand of the minister of to-day. The value of the spiritual above the material life, and the brotherhood of humanity, are the two things for the minister to teach. A definite creed is not necessary, if he puts before men the things which he feels would benefit them if they knew them. All considerations of money must be laid aside. The life of the man who cultivates himself...
...together. Intelligence is climbing a hill here at Cambridge, and has not breath enough to show its enthusiasm by shouting aloud. The enthusiasm will come later. With the power on one hand and the work on the other, let every man do what he can for this poor starved human life...
...using a ritual service of this sort, we may help to bring back this sense of the authority and sublimity of religion. We may be brought to feel that the same impulse prompts men now which has always prompted them. Only by interpreting the deepest and most fundamental human consciousness has religion any sanctity; only by interpreting human history has it any meaning. Around such a service sentiments of reverence and love would gather in time, and college prayers would have a different meaning than that they have...