Word: newman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many of the men spoke several times. The debate was lively, and, most of the time, interesting, though toward the end it tended toward becoming only a squabble between a few of the disputants. The following men spoke: Cameron '92, Cockrell '95, Wolff '92, Keep, L. S., Thwaits '94, Newman '95, Beckwith '94, Beckwith '94, Lecky '95, Vrooman '95, Clapp '95, Nichols '93, Huntington '95, Crane '95, Doney D. S, Owens L. S., Bull...
...Lovett '92 read his Bowdoin prize dissertation on "A Study of Cardinal Newman" in Sever Hall last night. He gave an outline of Newman's work and the development of his ideas. In closing he said...
...same intense regard for and dependence upon personality that turned Newman's eyes upon himself that made his religion subjective and his thought self-conscious. Indeed it has been made a charge against him that he had too little affection for truth in the abstract. His grasp of external fact was always feeble in comparison to his perception of his own inner life. His religion always looked for its ultimate sanction to his own consciousness. This extreme subjectivity manifests itself further in a disposition to doubt the reality of the outward aspects of nature. His childish idealism took form...
This is the climax of Newman's thought as it is the end of all wisdom, - to know the living and the true God. It is the supreme triumph of his intellect, to will away the world and stand in the presence of his Creator. It is this singleness of purpose that gives to his personality its marvellous power over men, - the power of one who sees farther and clearer, whose life is wrapped up in the divine, whose meditations are of the Eternal. For it is the personality of Newman that is significant. As in his religious thought...
...rose higher and was based deeper than they could ascertain by measurement. Then, at length, with astonishment and fear, they would become aware that Christ's presence was before them and would glorify God in His servant.' There can be no better words to describe, the power of Newman's own personality over the generation which loved him and mourns for him. True, we can no longer cry Credo in Newmanum. We cannot take his words as an Evangel. In dogmatic theology and in philosophy we must account him a reactionary force. But in the moral world he will ever...