Word: notion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gives one towards desired many-sidedness of insight. He characterizes the method of the book as a curiously intermediate one among the various possible views as to the nature of the mind, standing half way between the mind theory on the one hand, with which it shares the notion of the unity of the thinker, even although this thinker is but momentary, and the hypothesis of the atomic idea, on the other hand, with which it shares the tendency to accept and to describe in relatively simple terms the empirical facts of the passing consciousness...
...Mysticism of the type exemplified by Spinoza and by the "Imitation." This declares evil to be a necessary truth from the finite and relative point of view, but declares it to be nevertheless in a higher sense, and from the absolute point of view, an illusion. Yet this notion again, as our historical discussion has shown, proves to be very near indeed to a pessimism. The way from Spinoza to Schopenhauer is short...
...good work which the clubs can do does not stop here. In the West Harvard is misunderstood. An unsympathetic, and often prejudiced, press has done much to create an entirely false notion of Harvard men and of the college which they represent. The members of the clubs can do a great deal to dissipate this illusion, and to convince people that Harvard students are thoroughly manly, and their college the most liberal and progressive of American universities...
...Camp's suggestion, through a newspaper, that Harvard should prevent all possible complication by not resigning until after voting for whatever rules Yale wished to have adopted. The outcome of the meeting adds proof to what Harvard has from the first declared, that she has no desire or notion of disturbing whatever arrangements other colleges may wish to make. A dual league between Harvard and Yale would provide for matches between those two colleges, without reference to outside colleges...
...inscriptions and the prophets Professor Lyon completed yesterday the course of public lectures. He said that the inscriptions interpret or illustrate every branch of Old Testament study, Genesis, the history, the poetry, the religion, and, to a special degree, the prophets. The Hebrew prophet is not, as the popular notion too often makes him, primarily a student of the distant future, whose chief function is predictive. On the contrary he is a reformer, a preacher of righteousness, a man of affairs, concerned with the present, and rarely, if ever, looking to the future except to draw thence new arguments...