Word: infidelism
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...think we may strike a good medium." Just what this means, he proceeds to show by a practical illustration. He has just seduced a married woman, and he tells his friend about her. "In the meantime, my friend," he goes on, "I am happy enough to have a dear infidel; but don't think her unfaithful, I could not love her if she was. There is a baseness in all deceit which my sould is virtuous enough to abhor, and therefore I look with horror on adultery. But my amiable mistress is no longer bound...
Every year a cry arises about "infidelity at Harvard." and goes flying all over the land to arouse discussion and alarm. Every year it becomes necessary for the Harvard papers to denounce any such thing through their editorial columns. In accordance with this good old custom we again take our stand and diny that Harvard is any worse than the rest of the world in religious matters. Just how this rumor begins it is hard to conceive. Probably it is owing to the attempt made to abolish chapel, and to the fact that certain men with infidel views go forth...
...college press, and we hail it as such. The article called "He was from Harvard" is very flat, besides being extremely questionable in point of taste. We hope that the Advocate can survive the severe grind it contains. Among the items we learn that a Young Men's Infidel Association has been started, with a membership of thirty. O wicked, depraved Cornell! A pigsty in the college yard is bad enough, but an Infidel Association is far worse. What will the Niagara Index...
...gentleman to whom we have referred; or the absolute certainty of an endeavor to bring forward the heretical doctrine of transubstantiation, which is known to be believed by a recent candidate for the bishopric, whose influence the same gentleman thought to be so very necessary for the infidel students at Harvard! The ingenuity of special pleading in defence of "wide and generous views" loses vitality when the speaker is felt to be narrow-minded, and is suspected of seeking to cloak his own real ideas in wordy, philanthropic expression as to the necessities of the times! The students at Harvard...
...Yale, beware that you do not offer them this apple of knowledge, for the death-penalty is incurred by him who partakes thereof; choose you rather the quarries of Middletown, or the hills and trout-brooks of Williamstown, where the shadow of doubt has not yet fallen, and the infidel lifts not up his voice...