Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attraction,' he says, 'of unconscious holiness is of an urgent and inevitable nature, it persuades the weak, the timid, the wavering, and the inquiring; it draws forth the affection and loyalty of all who are in a measure like-minded; and over the thoughtless or perverse multitude it exercises a sovereign, compulsory sway, bidding them fear and keep silence, on the ground of its own right Divine to rule them. And for that select number who feel themselves, as it were, individually addressed by the invitation of his example: 'By degrees they would discern more and more the traces...
When we try to sum up his teaching in a formula it seems like the uttering of common places. He spoke of God as the loving Father, of religion as an answering love which tries to shape the life into conformity with the divine ideal, of duty as being fulfilled in love. In His teaching religion and morality were so interfueed, had become so undissolably blended with one, that they can not be severed even in our thought. Men sometime speak of the sermon on the Mount as though it were merely a system of ethics. Every word is transfigured...
...visitors added greatly to the interest of the meeting, and furthermore they have probably added something to Harvard athletics. Strange as it may seem, there is at present in college very little active enthusiasm in gymnasium athletics, such as contests on the flying rings, parallel bars, and the like. What interest there is in this kind of sport is good, but it is confined to a very small circle. One of the best ways to broaden this interest is by setting before the college an example of the perfection to which this sport can be carried. It is hard...
...resources in us unknown, and, in such trying circumstances, these come to our aid. Most people dread death, yet at the last moment they are generally willing to meet it. We come to a difficulty in life and at the same time we acquire the energy to overcome it. Like a stream which, when wending along, meets a seemingly impassable barrier, summons all its force and pushes its way through. As we look forward in life we fail to recognize the resources of God, the resources of the world, and our own resources. We should however trust to these...
...literature of power includes the works of the imagination, novels and dramas and the like. Men of large observation are the authors of the greatest works of human literature. The Iliad and Odyssey give evidence of this; with St. Augustine it was the same. Dante, during his long weary exile devoted himself to observation. Shakspere, it is needless to speak of. Goethe saw things as did no one else. Browning's greatness lies in the results of his observation. These are the great names in the literary history of the world. The same statements, however, are true of the lesser...