Word: question
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...This question was actually asked on board one of the Cunard steamships when it was just leaving Sandy Hook...
SEVERAL invitations from the McGill men have been received by our Football Club. The question of their acceptance has been referred to the Executive Committee...
...subject was "The Gain of History"; or, as the author states more fully, "Do the changes of History imply corresponding Gains?" By History is meant the life of mankind since the 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...
Without asking whether the results that Spencer draws from this impossibility of certain knowledge are true, the searching question is put, Is it a thing to exult over...
...would not suggest a course of professional reading, but the perusal of works which give polish and culture. To many the question must naturally arise, "What shall I read?" In answer, we can do no better than quote the words of an old writer on the same subject: "In brief, sir, study what you most affect." The remark is full of truth, and it seems only natural that whatever most interests us we shall study and read to the greatest effect...