Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bishop, the mind-reader, is to give an exhibition of his powers to the Princeton students...
...plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands so often and so rapidly, and each carries it so differently from anybody else, that some water must be spilt e'er it reach the fire...
...equal right of the authorship of the "Doctrine of the Origin of Species" on a firm basis. And, most strange of all, in the "Life and Letters of Mr. Darwin" now in press, he declares that it was Malthus' Doctrine of Population" which first suggested the theory to his mind also...
...present, Bishop, the mind reader, is the principal attraction for seekers of amusement at New Haven...
...lives under an absolute monarchy could never write understandingly about the kingdom of God, because his mind would not be broad enough to grasp the subject. He would be continually thinking of the different social relations, between man and man on earth, which do not exist in heaven. A student who does not use his knowledge to enlighten those of his follow-creatures who have not enjoyed his advantages, makes a misuse of the powers which God has given him. In conclusion, Faure's "Crucifix" was sung by a chorus of tenors and basses...