Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Look back over the last hundred years and note the changes of the century. What has brought about these changes? "Man with his unique spiritual force, his will, his intellect-men touched with the fire of divine enthusiasm." Such men were those who lived in righteousness, liberty and humanity and who died in the faith of God. With their examples can you entertain the doctrines of fatalism? No. Take your university spirit into life with you, carry it into the world, and you will find yourself possessed of a gem of inestimable value...
...Nevertheless he was more or less influenced by his contact with other nationalities. He wrote and except in one instance spoke in Greek. His works lead us to think he was more or less influenced by the rhetors or sophists, a class of men who addressed mainly the intellect and the aesthetic taste...
...style is lucid and clear. His great work is the "World as Will and Idea." He asks what one's true nature is and comes to the conclusion that the whole inner life is in the will, i. e., the active nature as such. This is deeper than intellect and at the basis of all seeing and knowing...
...eternal, infinite, self-determined, complete in itself. This is Spinoza's God. This order must have infinite ways of expression, hence Body and Mind. Whereever there is a body there is a thought, not necessarily produced or effective, but parallel; the human mind is a part of the divine intellect and is a thought thinking of the human body; we are in and of God. The wise man in any state meditates on life not death, the lusts of the world do not touch him and he never ceases...
...thoroughly studies the Bible with a view to disprove its truths than to the man who accepts truths in a general sort of way. The Bible must be studied in a new way by college men. Of the college man, being the man of education and intellect, more is expected than of the ordinary, uneducated classes...