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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reason by means of evidence given by the senses. It is then always at war with religion. It professes to be a strong and manly doctrine, while the rationalists sniff at religious faith as something that can be accepted only by women and children. But they do not look deep enough. Is not the evidence which they do accept as satisfactory really based on faith? They accept the evidences of their senses, the dictates of their reason, but they do not know that these are true. They know nothing but that they exist. They have agreed, however, to put faith...
...revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness, so that we walk invisible like fern-seed, and witness unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators, or Guy Fawkes in the cellar of St. Stephen's. We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society...
...truth can not be absolutely proved, they refuse to accept it. Yet the belief in immortality is something necessary for the existence of life on earth. What would all that we do here amount to, what would be the inducement to work and patience, if there were nothing to look to beyond the grave? Look a little more closely at nature and at history. Has it not often happened that what has seemed to come to an end and to have accomplished nothing has really been of great value? If we look at the mission of Christ on earth...
...business man, while it is eagerly striven for by many, brings with it contention. Many pursue knowledge, but the enlightenment of the intellect does little to secure the happiness of men. Science tries in vain to solve these problems of life upon which our happiness is dependent. Science must look to a higher power in order to solve them...
...made as a convenience for Cambridge people and not as a means for developing crews. Cambridge people have first right there, and the crews ought to avoid Cambridge people, rather than to expect that Cambridge people will avoid them. A little care is needed; some North avenue residents already look askance at the crew runs, and it would be unfortunate if they should be justified in calling them nuisances...