Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American habits of life. I think that a higher view should be taken of the question, and that college training should not be adapted to fit a man for any particular vocation. Its object is to give to man the key to that higher life of the human mind which is common to all ages and all nations. [Geo. Wm. Curtis...
...lowest life no evidence is apparent that the creature realizes the existence of anything outside itself. In higher forms we discern the germ of the nervous system, and later, a keen appreciation of the outer world. But no trace is visible of sympathy, ("the going out of the mind into fields of life beyond it self"), until we reach those animals in which the sexes are distinguished. The sexual and parental instinct is the beginning of sympathy. In the lower forms in which this instinct is distinguished, it is but momentary, and the offspring is self-supporting from the first...
...education, for the great majority of mankind at any rate. And here, I confess, I part company with the friends of physical science with whom up to this point I have been agreeing. The smallness of my acquaintance with the disciples of natural science is ever before my mind, and I am fearful of doing them injustice...
There seems to be a lack of information as to what lines of goods may be ordered through the society. It should be borne in mind that not everything can be bought at reduced rates by the society, but that reasonable efforts will be made to obtain many things not in the following list which will be continued in the next bulletins. Members are requested to make note of the list and to learn, from actual experiment, in what ways the society can serve them. Besides books, stationery, and coal and wood, members can order: All the leading American...
There seems to be a lack of information as to what lines-of goods may be ordered through the society. It should be borne in mind that not everything can be bought at reduced rates by the society, but that reasonable efforts will be made to obtain many things not in the following list which will be continued in the next bulletins. Members are requested to make note of the list and to learn, from actual experiment, in what ways the society can serve them. Besides books, stationery, and coal and wood, members can order: All the leading American...