Word: manly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Senior track team will hold an exhibition on the Nantasket Boulevard. Besides the usual track events, there will be wheelbarrow, potato and three-legged races, and any others which may be suggested. The feature of the day will be a balloon ascension at four o'clock. Any man who wishes to accompany the balloon should notify the Committee before the ascension takes place...
...question whether science makes the individual more or less hopeful or immortality. Alone, science may be said to lessen the belief of the individual in a future life. An immense majority of men live without any idea of immortality, a large group regard the hereafter as one of man's inventions, while a third, and much smaller class, lay hold of the life hereafter as a governing influence in this...
...attitude of the average man of today is one of indifference. The person who buttonholes his acquaintances and inquires about their hopes of future life is shunned like the Ancient Mariner. Among clergymen the subject is seldom referred to except from the pulpit, and even the daily press is silent. Only on occasions of sickness and sorrow, and at the approach of death, does the though arise, "Of what am I, and where do I go?" It is often the case that the older one grows the less fixed becomes the interest in immortality...
...living faith in future existence has no place in the modern social and political problems which face the human race. One reason for the prevailing popular indifference is caused by uncertainty. It is commonly supposed, that a man is appalled at the approach of death. This is erroneous, for as a rule man dies uninfluenced by the thoughts of future life...
...story of Adam which states that man was originally perfect, but degenerated, has been cast aside by scientists, who declare that man is the end, and the one far-off event, toward which nature has been steadily moving--the heir of all the ages. During the past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when...