Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Joined to this cynicism and contempt for what the world calls good, we find the modern spirit of questioning. There is nothing so sacred but it must be doubted. His is that same scientific "spirit of negation" which "turns back the strata, concluding coldly with: 'Here's Law! Where...
...acts depend entirely on our present circumstances and character, and our characters on past circumstances and the circumstances of our parents, it is evident that all things are perfectly determined. For the past cannot be changed, and as the future flows out of the past by a necessary law, the future is itself equally fixed and immutable. Why then, it may be said, should we waste effort in trying to accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from the seeds sown in the beginning, what need is there that we should...
...must not be uncaused; not only is such a supposition contrary to reason, but it defeats the very object for which it was framed. We want to prove that the man himself is the cause of his acts: this supposed new force must therefore be evolved, according to some law, out of the man's inmost nature, if it is to be the true expression of the man or if the man is to be held responsible for its decisions...
...floods the heart and sets it at liberty. For a free man, because he is free, may make himself a slave; but once a slave, because he is a slave, he cannot make himself free. Perhaps in this way we may be able to reconcile individual liberty with universal law. For if the will, being a spiritual activity, can attach itself, by virtue of its native strength and energy, to any of the things presented to it by the intellect, before any of these things has power to draw or coerce it at all,-then is the will free...
...down quickly the more important portions, we would be able to give better attention to the rest. If a knowledge of short-hand writing were to benefit a man only while in college, few men would take the pains to learn it; but in many professions, especially in the law, it is of the utmost value, and every man who intends to become a lawyer ought to be expert in it An elective such as the one suggested, would undoubtedly be very popular, and we can see no objections which the college authorities could raise against a plan which would...