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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...become a monk in India it is necessary to loose all thought of the body; to look upon other human beings as souls...
...yesterday's issue it was suggested that no good would be accomplished by declining to look upon all sides of the Memorial Hall question. Students ought to be willing to recognize the reasons for the Corporation's attitude, and the Corporation ought to be willing to do the same by the students. Cooperation is necessary, and cooperation, underlaid with misunderstandings, will amount to nothing...
...good will be accomplished by declining to look at all sides of the problem. The question is too large to have these mentioned in a single issue except in a very hasty way, and too important to make this haste desirable...
...most powerfully effective of the influences for which he was seeking, where should he look if not to Religion? The sublimities and amenities of outward nature might suffice for William Wordsworth, might for him have almost filled the place of a liberal education; but they elevate, teach and above all console the imaginative and solitary only, and suffice to him who already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind...
...people who had to go to Europe to see a sunset, who could never find out how beautiful snow was till they saw it on the Alps. The familiar miracles of nature at home were too cheap, and there could be nothing wonderful in what they had only to look out of their back-windows to see. It seems incredible to them that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry material of their every-day life...