Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...done to renew it, or we should soon see the annual festival collapse altogether. Now, it behooveth us to devise at once some means of averting any such collapse; for it would be a misfortune indeed to be deprived of our only gala-day, or to have it still observed, but with its glory passed and its continuance a bore...
...this letter it is no longer of instruction that I wish to speak to you, but of what, in my opinion, is of still greater importance, namely, education. The object of the first is only to develop mind, but the latter has a larger and higher aim, - it has to do with soul. The former trains the intellectual faculties, the imagination, the memory, the judgment; the latter, the moral faculties, the character, the will. Science is the fruit of instruction; virtue should be the result of a good education. Now, even admitting that instruction in the lyceums...
...still the Muses' sacred fount was welling...
...still the lands of Saturn's reign were telling...
...Legislature is unwilling to make any further appropriation till it is convinced that the amount already expended has been well used. It is indeed difficult for one not acquainted with the subject to see where the appropriations have been employed, but still it does not on that account seem necessary for the State to withhold further pecuniary support when its directors promise that, with such aid, it will not be long before the scientific world will acknowledge that the Museum of Comparative Zoology has no superior, nor even equal, in the world...