Word: predestinationism
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It is only beginning to be realized that the inherent and inherited qualities of a man--President Conant would call it predestination--are of more importance than the medical training in this business of mental massage. Such learning which takes eight years to acquire and eight more to forget is...
Macbeth: ". . .Thus the tragedy of Macbeth is inevitably fatalistic, but Shakespeare attempts no solution of the problem of free will and predestination. It is not his office to make a contribution to philosophy or theology . . ."
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was called by Theodore Parker "The father of more brains than any other man in America." From his father, a New Haven blacksmith, he inherited distinctive Beecher qualities: dyspepsia, absentmindedness, manual skill, a sense of humor, intellectual curiosity and physical strength. Thrice-married he begat 13...
By the time he was a preacher in Boston in 1826, Lyman Beecher had become a "New School" Calvinist, believing both in free will and predestination. In 1835 when he was president of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. Lyman Beecher was tried for heresy. In a day when a theological...
Despite his 76 years, Luther Burbank, great naturalist, is constantly busy with botanical researches, experiments and observations, publishing freely his results (TIME Jan. 18, SCIENCE). He has come to be known affectionately as "California's Grand Old Man" for his kindliness, his humanity, his love of children. He has a...