Word: mental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Universities, 17 fg.- (1) It throws him upon his own resources.- (2) He is treated as a man and not as a schoolboy.- (d) The accompanying lack of enthusiasm is but a cover for a maturity and balance: Educational Review, VII, 325.- (1) The apparent coldness comes from a mental perspective and a sense of what is ideally best.- (e) It teaches him to look upon himself not as a part of a body isolated from the world but as a part of the movement of the world: Scribner's Magazine, X, 376.- (f) The university spirit is in keeping...
...classes of men to really repent. Some cannot reach the individuality of their sin because they are a part of a great army which sweeps them on in its progress and restrains them from acting independently as they might if they were alone. Others fall into a kind of mental indifference from which they seem to be unable to rouse themselves; they can not throw aside their sins and give their souls a chance...
This higher view of religion, that one should push on, past the mere signs, to the power which lies behind them, is too often forgotten. Much as men will labor for mental civilization, they wish to gain easily, at a single step, a perfect faith and thorough understanding of the truth. They forget that no valuable result can be won without a struggle, and become discouraged at the very first difficulty...
...functions of feeling in mental life...
...this period, late in life, Moliere was suffering from the disease which eventually caused his death. He was almost broken down by ceaseless mental labor. He was unhappy in his home relations as well, embittered by family quarrels...