Word: romanist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hailed by the faculty and students alike as a step toward true worship. It was a recognition of the truth that observance of mere forms is meaningless. Whoever attends chapel now, attends it with the true religious spirit and whatever faith a man may profess, whether he be Protestant, Romanist or Jew, he must recognize that the same motive acts upon the man who is to him a heretic, as upon himself, a desire to worship the Deity. Consequently every one, unless he be a veritable pessimist, must rejoice at the success which the voluntary system has achieved...
Prof. Bowen, of Harvard, is the only representative of American upon the committee to erect a statue to the memory of Schopenhuer. The committee includes such eminent men as Ernest Renan, Max Muller of Oxford, Brahmane Ragot, Rampal Sing, and Rudolf Von Thering the celebrated Romanist of Gottingen...