Word: nihilism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nihil" scripsit in his book...
Junior, parsing: "Nihil is a noun." Professor: "What does it come from?" Student: "It doesn't come at all." Professor (quizzing): "Doesn't it come from nihilo?" Student: "No, sir. Ex nihilo nihil...
...must not generalize. As we have already said, the Harvard man has no distinctive characteristics in the sense that men of other colleges have. He is patriotic - in a degree. He is blase - in a degree. He is a man of one idea - with a few more added. "Nihil nimis," and not "nimis" even of "nihil nimis," is the unconscious rule of life with him. What such a being will do in any given case cannot be determined by any formula. One can safely trust that he will not be laughed at for a fool, nor avoided as a boor...