Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have in ordinary opposition to prayers, it would be a mistake to suppose that there is not a genuine, conscientious disapproval of them. This disapproval is founded on the widespread feeling that religious practices should be made matters for individual taste and feeling to direct; that everyone has a right to follow his own bent in such matters. So widespread is this feeling, that it underlies the arguments of those who defend compulsory prayers as well as of those who oppose them. No one thinks of assigning as a reason for making attendance at prayers compulsory the only reason that...
...give us the highest ideals of living, is to teach us to see what is right, and to stick to it unflinchingly, she must care more for the right than for money and popularity. It would be better for her to make men out of a few, than to give a parchment degree to thousands. Moreover, we must hear less of expediency and inexpediency. We must not be told that Harvard is afraid to take the stand for perfect religious freedom, because she fears unpopularity among certain classes. A church and a university can always afford to strive...
...larger part of these petitions are, of course, for prayer cuts, the rest bearing on our system of voluntary attendance at recitations - voluntary if we feel like going. Whether or not it is right to offer these guileful petitions for our prayer cuts, and, as it were, to fight the devil with fire, we are not prepared to say. It is a social problem upon the solution of which we shall not enter until the marks are out in Ethics nineteen: but truly is not the cause and effect as plainly seen as in the Nihilism of Russia...
...thoroughly satisfied with the examination he has made. But let us suppose our athlete has a sound heart. Let him be well fed with the proper kind of food, and be supplied with the proper kind of air; let his sleep be enough in quantity, and taken at the right time, his habits such as are conducive to health, especially as regards the use of tobacco and alcohol. These things being so, what is the effect of exercise on the heart? As the heart affects, and is affected by the whole body, it cannot be taken strictly by itself...
...cartilage which are incomplete in some part of their circumference. The epiglottis, fastened to the back part of the tongue keeps food from falling into the windpipe when we are eating. After the windpipe has gone down into the chest it divides into two parts, and goes to the right and left sides. Each of these enters the lung on its own side, and then splits up into a number of smaller branches. The smallest bronchial tubes at last end in little sacs which are air cells. The walls between them are very thin, and in these walls...