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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This text implies that religious teaching is not to continue to repeat the same thing; but to accept a lesson and to go on from that. Religion is like a tree, growing and changing because it is a living thing. Its growth is similar to that in literature; not that in science, where the messages and discoveries are definite. Literature, art, and religion deal with the infinite. Every new poet brings a new message, every prophet sees a new vision, perhaps not as great as a previous one but yet a new one. In the early history of Europe every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 10/31/1892 | See Source »

...noteworthy features of presidential campaigns at the present day are the national committees and the campaign funds. The former bear the whole brunt of the battle and conduct the grand strategy of the campaign; the latter, since money, like water, seeks the lowest level, flood the doubtful states, and have become a source of sore trouble to the sober impulses of both parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Political Methods. | 10/28/1892 | See Source »

...document provided for a dual league, like the one proposed to Yale two years previously. Besides, the status of amateurs was defined, a time limit of four years put on players, and playing restricted to undergraduates, provided Yale and Princeton would agree. As regards football there was this provision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Relation to Princeton in Football. | 10/26/1892 | See Source »

...three of these elements are present in every life and they are inter-dependent. Like the vases which the potter produces, men are made of different grades of material; some are good, some are bad, but all are worked upon by the wheel, experience, nature and God. As we study these three elements we study Philosophy, Science or Theology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 10/17/1892 | See Source »

Economics is not and cannot be a panacea of social evils; something more is needed that recognizes other qualities in man besides his mere covetousness, and that will add to the question. Will it pay? the deeper question, Is it right? Economics is like a great mechanism, but it must get its motive power from the moral sentiment of the people. Science and sentiment join hands, - both are absolutely essential. Science without sentiment makes a man hard-hearted; sentiment without science makes a man soft-hearted. The influence of love must temper the reign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Ethics. | 10/13/1892 | See Source »

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