Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this chaos of uncertainty, this boiling, seething torrent of confusion, this benumbing consciousness of the unreality of the existent, took possession of my mind only while actually at the lectures and readings, there would be some balm in Gilead to soothe and heal my burning, frenzied, demon-haunted intellect. But there is a fate upon me. A brooding curse from Ate sits within my mind, driving me on and ever exacting the penalty of - Ha! ???, Sospiter, Mein-Gott-in-Himmel, Mon Dieu, Good Lord! Save me! Save me! See, see! That form! Gone! Where...
...retain, prestige. At all events, the coming contests can hardly fail to be of interest. The Courant, in speaking of the letter by a Yale graduate in a recent CRIMSON, declares that "When a good solid blow is to be struck, there is nothing for the purpose like an intellect trained at Yale." That has always been our opinion, and we are glad to find it thus boldly stated. . . . The current number of the Princetonian is one of the best we have yet seen; but the Acta has not yet been forgiven for its wit at Princeton's expense...
Though men reached the zenith in intellect...
References. - Locke on the Understanding, Book II. Dugald Stewart's Works, edition by Hamilton, I., 348, &c., 389. Thomas Brown's Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, IV. Fleming, Manual of Moral Philosophy. Upham, Moral Philosophy, I. N. Porter, Human Intellect. Todd's Cyclopaedia, article on Sleep, by W. B. Carpenter. Maudsley, Physiology and Pathology of the Mind. Spencer, Principles of Psychology...
...wants to find a girl untarnished by the chromo civilization of the 19th century. She must know nothing of germans, lawn tennis, or the opera; her mind must be as fresh - as fresh - as - as a freshly cleaned blackboard on which I shall stamp the imprint of my superior intellect. She must be a country girl, in fact. I will come and board for the summer months at her father's house; daily I will accompany her to the old oaken bucket, and fill and carry her pail to the house; during the day we will roam hand in hand...