Word: purely
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Sacred the prayer of a maiden's pure love...
...great Source of our Knowledge, instil thy pure drops...
...ruby wine, once pure as Hellas...
...simple and rudimental as the faculty of memory. We give a great deal of time, and wisely, to the languages, as a means of cultivating our analytical powers, and to mathematics and philosophy, to strengthen our reasoning faculties; but while so much of our attention is devoted to those pure sciences whose good results are to be sought for in the mind itself, and not in the subject-matter studied, we seem to lose our ability to retain those facts which we have once possessed, and which are of intrinsic importance...
...French literature, or of the history of other nations. And not only are they ignorant, but the germs even of all free thought are, as it were, crushed out of them. They have no longer any independent ideas when they have completed their course. They are, in a word, pure machines. Such is the sad result of the clerical and Jesuitical instruction...