Word: religion
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Since we find Heine's appreciation of the singularities of Slavonic names so great, we can hardly expect that he held his peace in regard to our extraordinary sounds. Accordingly, in his "History of German Religion and Philosophy" we find a very witty illustration which is quite to the point. He gives an account of a man fabricated by an English mechanician. This manufactured man did credit to the author of his being, lacking only a soul, A sort of feeling the creature had in its leathern breast; and this feeling, Heine maliciously observes, was not essentially different from...
...EDITOR: I heartily agree with your contributor upon the main points of his "Religion in Harvard." I need to apologize to you for saying the same things over again, and will urge as my excuse the irony which he employed, and which some seem inclined to take in good earnest. At the same time I hope to add some facts to substantiate his position...
Harvard College, in its printed advertisement, published in the Atlantic some time since, said: "The University respects, and does not seek to influence, the religious opinions of its students." To this it adheres. The topic of religion is not introduced in the College exercises except when the subject necessarily suggests it, - as Philosophy may do. And no influence is exerted to make the students Unitarians. (I bring forward this name, because it is true that the College has a Unitarian pastor. But he is a man apparently as acceptable to Orthodox Congregationalists and Baptists as to Unitarians...
...influence of the College will be best ascertained if we look at the religious life of the students. This, among those who make any claims to being religious men, is of as high a character as at other colleges. Certainly, men do not pretend to religion from selfish motives, nor is their piety a hot-house growth. They profess religion because they believe it, and stand by it all the better for the lack of a forcing temperature. The College is a little world by itself, and the bad influences of a world are here, and the good also...
...second, "Culture and Religion," is rather designed to prove the insufficiency of "Culture" and the falsity of its teaching, than to show how culture and religion may be blended, or what the relation between them should be. The subject is certainly interesting, and becoming more so every...