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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...shown itself from the opening of the hall, the behavior of the students would have to be attributed to the lecture on table-etiquette, which was reported in the last Advocate. There can be no doubt that the advice there given will tend to cause still further progress toward a higher civilization...
...opposed to each other in our own, and the only attempt at an organization is that of the trades-unions, which "involve a complete levelling process, and in which the arithmetical view of society reaches its extreme results." Our author concludes, then, that "at best liberty is not progress. It is a condition of progress. Its worth depends upon its use." And, though wealth be the result of our system, yet "wealth is not an end in itself; like liberty, it is a means...
...Aryan dispersion. Are we better off than our forefathers of four thousand years ago? Before answering this question, Professor Everett seeks to remove certain prejudices. One of these is the natural belief that all is for the best, from which proceeds, especially in youth, an enthusiastic trust in progress; but, even retaining a faith in optimism, might we not reasonably suppose that, by a system of compensations, the world is always at its best? Is it not by blindly applying a principle of final causes that we look on all other centuries only as the preparation for our own? That...
...other side, Buchner and the materialists seem not to have progressed beyond the Chinese, of three thousand years before Christ, who recognized in the universe two elements, one active, one inert, - force and matter; but perhaps came nearer the truth than our German contemporaries in recognizing these elements as divine intelligences rather than dead and aimless. The business of science is, indeed, analysis. It returns us elements for the wholes we give it. The danger is lest we lose the former, so much the more important. "The sense of the glory of the heavens is worth more than the physicist...
...Farmer, and taking into consideration the efforts he is making to promote the success of the Thayer Club, it is due to him to say that nine waiters left him Thursday morning, frightened at the extent of the work; only one dumb-waiter has been built, another is in progress of construction; mechanics interfere with the operations of cooks and everything is in an unfinished and unsettled condition...