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...introduction Dr. Moxom stated that it was his purpose to bring out the principle underlying the text rather than to point out its historic significance. Jesus did destroy, but His purpose was to plant, to create. If He destroyed existing institutions He established still better ones. He was no iconoclast. Especially at the present day was there a need for paying heed to this constructive side of Christ's work. Young men were inclined at present to be iconoclastic. They forgot that though destruction is easy, construction is a slow and painful process. A man's religion might be fetichism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 2/18/1895 | See Source »

...iconoclast's hammer waves high 'gainst the stern and rock-bound wall." - Gimlet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOYLSTON'S BLEAK BLOCKS. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...iconoclast. On the contrary, I am an implicit believer in everything old and sanctioned by custom. I do not say that these customs of ours should be given up because they are silly, but that they should be clung to tenaciously because they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS-DAY COSTUMES. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...fatal pessimism of the Nation. Behold the iconoclast which rudely defaces the temple and erects nowhere a chime for the devout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVIEWER REVIEWED. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...inferior to its old one. A change has been made, too, in the management of the paper, which places it more in the hands of graduates. The little Record is thus left the sole undergraduate organ. The best article in the Courant is the one on the Iconoclast. It demolishes that crazy sheet pretty thoroughly. We give a specimen: "The article on base ball is marvellously weak. The author has been so kind as to sum up his argument in syllogistic form, as follows: 'All men want to go to Skull and Bones; playing ball will not take them; hence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

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