Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...future, for most of the prophets were very prominent men in their own time. Each one of them was an enthusiast who brought some special message or who instituted some needed reform. The prophets stand for just the opposite of what the priests do. Their work is to progress and to lead the world out of its old faults. So they are not in sympathy with the priests and the priests cannot understand them...
...Social reasons. N. A. Review, vol. 143, p. 26. (1) The Chinese are mere slaves. (2) Do not progress. (3) Defy the laws. (4) Live herded together. (5) Have bad morals. (6) Would deluge...
...catalogue points to the gradual reaching out of the Harvard spirit into all the spheres which education enters; everywhere is the steady advance along lines of special work and a broadening of the lines themselves. This is shown by the fact that the most marked signs of progress have been in the Law School, the Medical School, and the Scientific School, not in the college proper. This progress simply means that the attention of the people is now fixed on the great work of the University rather than on any one part of it, as, for instance, the college...
...progress in the three schools above mentioned has another significance. It will be noticed that the greatest advance has been made in two of the great professions and also in the matter of science. No men in our day require, or should require a higher standard of proficiency than lawyers and especially physicians, and every move to make the law and medicine open only to the best men is an important step in advance. Moreover, the business of the law and of medicine and of scientific research is largely with the present and the future, and it is gratifying...
...lamented the prevalent ignorance as to the literary worth of the Bible. Many of our best works, he said, have been influenced by it, in style or substance, or in both. Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and a number of Carlyle's works are examples of those books which have canght inspiration from its truths and their expression...