Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question as to the right of the majority to say when the minority shall buy or sell. We have not yet fixed the province of government to levy a tax more injurious to some than to others. Adam Smith would give government the care of the shools, religion, and certain trade monopolies. Mill would have the degree of government interference depend on history, social condition and character of people; general aim should be at non interference. Mr. Mill is about right. Whether a state shall control a farm, a railroad, or an industry, is to be decided by the character...
...student is required on week-days to attend a place of Christian worship. Yet on Sunday, the Christian holy-day, he is free to pay to spiritual matters what little attention he may please. The reason underlying this peculiar state of affairs would be difficult to ascertain. Week day religion is not the general custom Most men keep their piety for exclusive use on the first of the week. Nor is week-day religion sanctioned by scriptural recommendation. The 4th commandment might even be quoted as authority against such an arrangement...
...give their reasons, but the only creditable reasons must be either the belief that God is pleased with the presence in a chapel or church of unwilling, irritated, and irreverent worshippers, brought thither by the fear of temporal punishment, and does not mind the set against all religion which such a process is very apt to give young men; or the belief that a man is benefited by being present in any place in which prayers are being offered, no matter in what state of mind he may be, and no matter what agency has brought him there. But neither...
...going. We sincerely hope the former contingency is not the actual case. Improvements in the service, if they are possible, will not avail much in the present state of the prayer question. The fact is, the men who signed the prayer petition did so because they object to take religion under compulsion, and not from dissatisfaction with the service. This objection, however, is one which can not be obviated by anything short of voluntary chapel...
...religious significance of the duty? As a revielle, a police regulation to get men out of bed, it does us good service: as a purely religious exercise, we fancy very few would affirm that, as the fact stands now, it is honorable either to the students, or to their religion. It is strange that within a week after the Harvard faculty had passed resolutions in favor of making morning chapel voluntary, an act in our own college should have confirmed the truth of their position, that no very deep religious significance is attached to a compulsory attendance by the average...