Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discussion of the religious question, how could such an absurd idea take possession of peoples minds that Harvard college was not only a training school for the mental qualities of its students, but also for their religious morals? "Any college that gives a preference for any one belief in religion and enforces such a belief on its members, must be narrow and must exert a bad influence over all who come under its sway." This has been said more than once by people who pride themselves on being well read and posted on educational subjects. It is extremely difficult...
...founders of the republic, although they rid themselves of many of the encumbrances under which Europe was burdened for ages, doing away with state religion, individual privilege and royalty, still clung to one mediaeval idea, namely the interference of government in private business. This idea is foreign to the theory of our government of non-interference with private affairs. The history of the American colonies before the Revolution affords the most striking instance known to history of great industrial activity arising from natural advantages, and the intelligence and skill of the population. No tariff protected the colonies, yet there...
...Peabody preached a very impressive sermon last evening on the idea "Therefore," in the Christian religion...
...Towne, "the permanent influence at Harvard are those of liberty and learning, in the largest sense, and Unitarianism has specially represented these influences in the religious world. If Unitarianism had proved a great success, Harvard would have been the centre and seat of that success. The state of religion at Harvard is due to the failure of Unitarianism. The outcome of Unitarianism and of modernism generally at Harvard, as it may be seen by several distinct signs, is one of critical scepticism and religious indifferentism or unbelief, which leaves religion in a state of confusion, uncertainty and suspense, which means...
...conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science of agnostic doubt, is in the ascendant, and that Harvard has the greatest problem of her history to solve, how to reconcile in a large and real sense the spirit of true science and the spirit of real religion...