Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...solved by those who undertake it. There is no other profession in which such active, accurate thought, so body a command of resources, and so clear a method of exposition are needed. The faculty of late have been devoting their valuable time to the obstruction of athletics: would they mind considering a subject that is of vital importance to the proper education of a class of men hither-to unnoticed...
...shame be upon them, encouraged the mischief-making youngsters by stamping themselves. The head waiter knows his busines well enough to correct any breaches of etiquette which visitors to the hall may make, and it is not necessary for freshmen, or upper-classmen of an equally youthful cast of mind, to take upon themselves the parts of censors...
...Quincey. What I remember most is my own face glancing at me, as the murder went on, with looks of mockery and hate. Then the room suddenly filled with people. I recollect the chill of fear I felt as the instinct of self preservation rushed over my mind. Then with body and soul no longer separate, but united, I know not how, I dashed through the window, and plunging out into the darkness, fied to escape my crime...
...Cromwell. But the character of Satan is truly grand. Like all great literary creations, he is really the embodiment of the ideals, the aspirations, and the passions, of the time and country in which he was created. We see in him the struggle of a powerful and independent mind against an iron despotism. He feels that he is intellectually equal to his tyrant; that his true place is as a leader, not as a follower. He sees that, although physical force may be on the other side, the government ought to be for the benefit of the people...
...idea of these relations will change our idea of right and wrong. In this way fatalism may have an influence on conduct such as is exercised by all religious and philosophical beliefs. It may sanction certain acts and practices and condemn others; it may encourage certain states of mind. Thus we can conceive that if all the world turned fatalist, we might see our good people face life with a little more calmness and intrepidity; we might expect to find less self-accusation and less of what is called righteous indignation. For if we came to regard wickedness as misfortune...