Word: keys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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BOSTON, January 21, 1892."In sending you back the key of No. 1 Wadsworth House, I feel almost as if I were giving up 'the keys of the kingdom,' for it has been one of the happiest works of my life which has centered there and at Appleton Chapel. I wish you would some day express to any of the men whom you meet my sense of the very manly and cordial reception which I always found among them, and the earnest hearing which made every morning service an inspiration and delight to me. I shall hope to meet many...
...fear God and this is the beginning of wisdom. Religion is not an expression of opinion nor is belief in immortality, valuable as it may be, essential to it. It is, in its truest sense faith, hope and love. They are the threads of life and give the key to the solution of its perplexities and burdens. We study science to find what reason there is in nature and what are the laws which govern it. We find there is back of all phenomena, understanding and intelligence and unless we try to find more about these we are not possessed...
Life opens with a cry and ends with a sigh, and throughout it all there is a minor key. Every one has his troubles; each life its rainy and gloomy days. But God paints the rain-bow only on the clouds, and the Christian rejoices in those trials that give him a greater supremacy over himself and open larger possibilities for the future...
After reading the article, Professor Royce discussed it, informally, with the members of the Union. The key-note, he said, of the modern idea in Ethics is that what should be sought is not, as the Utilitarians said, the greatest sum-total of good, but the highest organization, - the greatest good which can be obtained while still keeping development of the individual; in other words the modern idea is the greatest good to the greatest number of distinct individuals, as opposed to the Utilitarian idea of the greatest sum of good...
...long time the growth of this new life, - this new civilization, was slow and uncertain. But the key-note of growth of culture is always the mingling of religious, social and political influences. In Gaul we find the starting point of this growth. Then Germany and the Celtic races began to have a definite place in the constitution of this new civilization. By degrees monasteries, schools and convents sprung up in all parts of Europe, and it is to this fact that we owe the knowledge which we have. For the collection of books in these various places have been...