Word: politico
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...heartily commend the Finance Club in its endeavor to advance the cause of Economic knowledge among the students. As stated in last week's Advocate, the Club has offered a medal, given by the Cobden Club of England, for the best Essay on some Politico-Economic subject. The competition will be open to any member of the University, and the successful competitor will be requested to read his essay in public. The judges are Professor Dunbar and Mr. Laughlin, and a third, to be selected by them, who has no connection with the University. The subjects will be announced...
...departure from the Stagirite once allowed, there was no end of change and emendation. The next innovator was Politico, an Italian. This philosopher was an Animist, that is to say, he was full of life. He first introduced the name of the Regulative Faculty. By Anaxagoras, the same thing was called ???, Reason. But aside from being a vague and ambiguous term, Politico, the acutest of his contemporaries, saw that calling this Faculty Reason involved a contradiction of ter???, since Reason could scarcely ever be said to have any influence over its action. Hence he appropriately dubbed it the Regulative Faculty...
Putting together the Stagirite, the Saint, and Politico, we arrive at the following process and result. The Material Cause is the stuff of which the paper is made, and the Formal Cause is the paper-mill. So far we have kept in the region of pure optimism. "And now here comes" the trouble. The Efficient Cause is the one who makes out the examination-paper, and the Final Cause is the intention in his mind, a priori, to condition the examined, while the condition itself is the Lost Cause, but does not take effect until it receives the stamp...