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Indeed, the average college man is a victim of what Tolstoy termed "the school state of mind",--a state in which every thing scholarly appears a-priori difficult, and the student regards himself not an eager seeker for truth, but a patient forced to receive a distasteful pellet of learning. Probably most men actually apply more alert thought to choosing their clothing and food than to their properly-intellectual tasks...
...ideal impersonation of a mediaeval ruler. While the attempt made by some critics to identify this statue with the youthful Parzival is fantastical, it cannot be denied that in the far-away, dreamy, but spirited look of the rider there is something that suggests the Grail-seeker...
Nietzsche called himself an atheist, although he is in reality a God-seeker, since he longs for the holiness of an eternal ethical value in life. He has been mistaken for a philosopher. Critics who have sought to condemn him on these grounds have thereby failed to comprehend his message, since his works cannot be analyzed according to ideas, but must be understood in regard to mental attitudes...
...future, said Mr. Clayton, the atmosphere will undoubtedly be used as a medium of travel. The flying machine without a gas bag, will be the most common vehicle of aerial travel, but the spherical balloon will hold its place for the pleasure-seeker...
...Bonaparte went on to show how it is that so many office-seekers persist in believing him a "spoils" man, although he has spent his life in active reforms. This is in a measure explained by the noticeable part which he took in the recent presidential campaign, and the fact that President Roosevelt employed him in investigating several abuses in the Civil Services. It was therefore naturally believed that he was an office-seeker, and his reform principles were consequently considered mere party abuse and ridiculed as the sounding catch-words of a public impostor...