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...answers varied and were inconsistent, he was sure now. The century would be the twentieth century, and the place the cities of the English-speaking races; this side the Atlantic or the other. For life at this time and such a place, devoted to Christian service, seems the loftiest ideals for which a man of high ambition may strive. Here people have come to realize better than ever before the grandeur of the call to Christian service, and now come nearer to answering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARCHBISHOP'S ADDRESS | 10/8/1904 | See Source »

Religion ought to play a great part in the purifying, preserving and sweetening of society. The loftiest reach of reason and the strongest inspiration of morality is religious faith. The test of the reality of a religion is its power to cleanse life and make it worth living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON. | 6/20/1898 | See Source »

Between 1847 and 1875 when he was appointed Professor of Geology in this University, Professor Whitney made important surveys in the Lake Superior and Mississippi mining regions and in Iowa and California. Mt. Whitney, the loftiest peak in the United States was named in his honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Josiah Dwight Whitney. | 9/30/1896 | See Source »

...this poem beyond the delight, we gain strength and consolation, and if these serve the purpose of helping man in the struggle of life, then never has their function been better fulfilled than in this work of the loftiest of the human poets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DIVINE COMEDY. | 4/6/1895 | See Source »

...doubt that in point of attractive coloring, the flowers of temperate regions far excel those of the equatorial belt. The gorgeous highly-colored orchids of the tropics are comparatively rare, and the most brilliant are in secluded nooks or cling as epiphytes to the higher branches of the loftiest trees, well out of sight. And lastly, there is nothing in the tropics which can compare with the ever fresh surprise of the miracle of spring, even as it is seen in our austere and whimsical New England. Our plants, growing under such severe conditions, are well worth studying just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Goodale's Lecture. | 4/4/1895 | See Source »

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