Word: scienceless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...development within a few years; the enthusiasm of its founders may be that of our teachers; the great questions about which it is concerned are not new ones, to be sure, but they are in their nineteenth-century dress, and stand in a purer, clearer air than in the scienceless centuries of Thomas Aquinas and the schoolmen. It is just this difference of dress and environment which makes the difference between enthusiasm and apathy which their discussion produces; and no greater mistake can be made by our Faculty, as we see it from the undergraduates' point of view, than...
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