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Geological Conference. Papers: The Extent and Characteristics of the Trenton Limestone in the United States, Mr. C. Abbe; Concerning the Composition and Origin of Clays, Mr. G. E. Ladd. Geological Laboratory...
...constant development and evolution and has varied with every century in the history of mankind. The different styles of architecture with which we are now familiar have received their impulse and inspiration from the characteristics and peculiarities of the nations which were dominant at the several times of their origin. We have had the Roman, Gothic and Medixval styles and then out of the reformation and regeneration of ideas which came in the sixteenth century grew the Renaissance, which has represented the ideas and inventions of the past hundred years...
Prof. Lyon spoke last evening on the Study of the Bible. In the introduction he described the three views regarding the origin of the Bible. One of these treats the book as a revelation, the very words of God. A second denies the divine element altogether and points to what it considers the unscientific, unhistorical and impracticable elements of the book. The third, an intermediate view, finds the unique element of the Bible in the peculiar mission of the Hebrews as the religious teachers of the world, and in the remarkable work of the Bible in the history of civilization...
Geological Conference. Papers: Some Recent Work in the Boston Basin, Mr. L. S. Griswold; The Origin of Greenwith Cove, R. I., Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Geological Laboratory...
Colonel Higginson began his lecture by a definition of what was characterized as the "Boston Style" before the rebellion, and showed how this had become florid, almost turgid, because of its origin and developement from the firm belief of the Boston public in the literary superiority of Dr. Johnson, and because of its foundation in the Latin. It had an easy flow of eloquent words, but was absolutely lacking in conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent...