Word: self
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...shadowy caves beneath the earth, and again of the souls of heroes, placed in the sky above with the Gods. Another conception is that the soul is a shadowy double of the man, which lingers with his remains after death, or, according to Plato, it is the true self, imprisoned in the body during life, and freed from it at death. All these conceptions are represented in the Bible...
Today however, the general conviction is that the soul is not a thing separable from the body, but is its essential self. It is the thing of supreme worth to man, and loss of it is a thing against which men must fight...
Religion teaches us that three things are necessary for the salvation of the soul: first, Works, which mean sacrifice, self denial, and doing good to others; second, Knowledge of God and the truth of the life eternal; and third, Faith, a surrender to God's will and a devotion to his service. Man has an affinity to two things, to God and to the brute. It is this discord between two natures which we must strive to resolve into a perfect unity with God himself. We must give up the things of this earth and all self-seeking purposes...
...Harvard Union has, therefore, to raise $25,000 a year. It does not seem safe to count on a membership for the first year of more than 2500 undergraduates. The Harvard Union must be self-supporting. It is evident therefore that we must be able to get ten dollars apiece as dues from the members. The committee, however, hope that the number of graduate and life members will be so large that it will not be necessary to ask for the whole of this amount. They suggest, accordingly, that there be an admission fee of $5.00 to be paid...
...this, a vast amount of beautiful talk has been worse than wasted. And if this is the fundamental object, this consideration should govern the annual dues, rather than any notion of what might be desirable in other respects. Economy is an absolute necessity in any general college enterprise. The self-supporting student who carries his own burden can bear only a light weight in addition. The dependent student, who casts the whole matter on paternal charity, can not make this an excuse for favoring a load he himself could not carry...