Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stock: Dumas, Le Capitaine Pamphile; Fletcher's Advanced Readings; Taine's Ancient Religion. Atlantic for December, containing Lowell's Anniversary Oration and Holmes' Poem, corrected by the authors. Subscriptions to the Political Economy Quarterly, $1.68 per year, N. Y. Nation...
...University in behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, than that all her sons in the coming time, standing on the vantage ground already gained, shall make their lives as honorable, as conspicuous and beneficent to mankind as those who laid the foundations here, in devotion to learning and pure religion, to sound morals and to upright statesmanship...
...give it all a low meaning. Possible enough to see in it nothing but the casting of restraint after restraint, in order that at last all traces of connection with the supernatural shall disappear and the slavery and degradation of pure secularism shall be complete, until at last religion and the mystery of life shall be forever dissipated, and the thin, hard and colorless relic which is left shall be staring upon us in the glare of the electric light which men choose to call by the great name of science. Either of these ways of looking...
...university cultivating righteousness as the medium of faith must come great privileges. We love to think that she must become a great home of reconciliations. In her calm and lofty air, the friends of whom the world would make, foes must meet and own their friendship, science and religion, faith and reason, individuality and society, conservatism and radicalism, poverty and wealth, the past and the future - these must join hands and walk in peace with one another in a city of scholars where not in the base spirit of compromise, but in the higher atmosphere of universal and eternal truth...
...impressive scene in the old church, and one which called up many memories. On this very spot and in a church of the same name, Ruprecht I five hundred years before dedicated the university to religion and knowledge. The building was filled to the last man possible. The oration was a masterly production, and was delivered in a manner befitting the great occasion. Like all Germans, Doctor Fisher is nothing if not exhaustive; and in the course of the two hours and a half that he occupied. he succeeded in exhausting, not only his subject but his entire audience...