Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...through the young Edward Everett, say out bravely and patriotically (this was in July, 1810): "The foreign transactions of the last four years. nay, the last three months, the confiscation of American shipping in the ports of the continent, a hundred years ago would have arrayed Europe. . . .Morals and religion have suffered with the civil rights of man, and all their institutions have been disregarded and violated. Science and literature seem to be all that is old-fashioned and good that we have left . . . . . America especially should cultivate literature. We have so much to depress our national literary character, there...
Princeton and Cornell furnish the annual college scandals. The two toos - too much religion and too little...
WILLIAM TRELEASE, Secretary.Prof. George P. Fisher of the Yale Divinity School, one of the most scholarly representatives of Christianity in America, continues the discussion of the Christian religion, which was initiated in the North American Review by Col. Ingersoll...
...University of Pennsylvania. His reputation was even broader in Europe than in this country, and several of his works received their first publication abroad. His "Intellectual Development of Europe" has been translated into many languages. The best known of his other works are: "The Conflict Between Religion and Science," "History of the American Civil War," "A Text Book of Chemistry" and "Human Physiology...
...Odessa mob recently attacked Sarah Bernhardt, on the ground that she is a Jewess. In this they were mistaken, for though she is of Hebrew parents, she is of the Catholic religion, having received both baptism and her first communion at the Church of Auteuil...