Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...disease, for which there are two stages of recovery. The first of these is the belief that behind nature there is a spirit whose expression nature is. The second is the more complete and joyous, and corresponds to the freer exercise of religious trust and fancy. The craving to know nature has resulted in the progress of science. But our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. The world of our present natural knowledge is a show-world; it is enveloped in a larger world of some sort, about which we mortals can frame no positive idea. As Kant...
...methods of the Salvation Army are most efficient.- (a) Their "soldiers" are the best possible for such work.- (1) They best know the conditions of life among which they work.- (x) They are themselves redeemed souls.- (2) They best can sympathize with the sufferers.- (3) Their entire lives are devoted to their task.- (4) Their enthusiasm is genuine and voluntary.- (x) No one is compelled to join the army.- (y) Any soldier can withdraw at any time.- (5) Obedience is absolute and willing: Booth, pp. 242, 243.- (b) Methods are most direct.- (1) Soldiers come into closest and most intimate...
...Wednesday evening, May 20, in Sever 5, at half-past seven, I will meet students who think of applying for scholarships and who need information regarding scholarships. I hope to state briefly certain things which every applicant for a scholarship should know; and after the statement to answer questions...
...will be of interest to those who have visited the Central American room in the Peabody Museum to know that there is now in press a general report on the explorations carried on by the Museum at Copan in Honduras during the years 1891-95. This report will form the first number of the Memoirs of the Peabody Museum, a large quarto publication. It will contain a general account of the several explorations with descriptions of the prominent monoliths and sculptures and a number of illustrations. These illustrations, some of which are in the text, and others in the form...
...Wednesday evening, May 20, in Sever 5, at half-past seven, I will meet students who think of applying for scholarships and who need information regarding scholarships. I hope to state briefly certain things which every applicant for a scholarship should know; and after the statement to answer questions...