Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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sacrifice of self for the good of others. As well in the world of nature as in spiritual things it is true that as you give just so shall you receive. Once the forces of nature were little utilized, but when man gave himself to them, that is to their study, they returned his pains a hundred fold. So to the husbandman the earth gives just in proportion as he gives himself to its cultivation. From this we must learn that we cannot gain anything without giving ourselves to it. We cannot become fine scholars or musicians without devoting ourselves...
...education is a novel idea. But it is certainly necessary that every one should understand the training of children and the best ways of teaching them. This, people are ready to grant, but still cannot realize that instruction is needed. But it is something too complex for self instruction and instruction is so much needed that it should, therefore, occupy the highest position in all education...
...Hanus in the University is comparatively unknown and yet it represents a tendency of educational activity which bids fair to become much augmented in the future. Professor Hanus's courses are concerned with the best methods for imparting knowledge to others rather than for acquiring knowledge for one's self. The importance of attention to this subject he will explain in his lecture tonight...
...labored not for cattle and lands, but that he might see god, and when he saw all that he had given up coming back to him it was not as wages but as a reward for the self-sacrificing life which he had lived. We can not work for God for wages; the devil alone gives wages...
...natural enemies. This is done either by a feigned resemblance to an animal of a different and often dangerous kind, or by an appearance of being wounded and therefore useless to an enemy. Pictures were shown of hermit-crabs, which attached to themselves sea-anemonies for the purpose of self-defence, the anemonies being offensive to hostile fishes. One picture represented a deep-sea fish which attracts its prey by a lure in the shape of a phosphorescent light; another showed a snap-turtle which lies for hours with its mouth open and entices small fish by means of filaments...