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Thus far we have been concerned with the exaggerated and atrabiliar statements of the writer. His co-ordination of the facts with the phenomena that had been the subject of this discussion is hardly ambitious enough to merit the name of reasoning. A fondness for the universal affirmative or negative is not to be cultivated in writings of a controversial nature. Having published with boldness "that culture is only the perfect blossom of moral character," singularly enough a few lines later he tells us "that it is, in short, only the result of long study, rich experience," and moral character...
...indirectly, that is, by determining the mind to such or such researches; but investigation once set afoot, the laws of thought, of evidence, and of logic, and not rules of action, conduct us to truth or falsehood, and thus when rules of morality, as well as all else, are subjected to the scrutiny of reason, they cease even indirectly to influence mental growth and become themselves the product of thought. Thus do we find, superstitions apart, that moral character is the perfect blossom of culture, which differs in several regards from the author's remark. To say that the cultured...
...name of Spinoza is instructive as a believer in the doctrine, of all others, to stop effort, - I refer to the theory of Universal Necessity. I should, however, scarce think of seriously refuting such ludicrous reasoning as the writer in the last Advocate indulges himself in upon this subject, but subjoin it as a specimen of the inaccurate and hasty writing of that martinet in logic: "Such facts . . . . are unhealthy; they need to be supplemented by what Heine would call enthusiasm of the idea, or by some other powerful emotion. Whether it is the province of the newspaper to furnish...
...receipt of a communication strongly urging an increased amount of instruction in elocution; a desire which, from the number of articles we have from time to time received on the subject, we should judge to be very general among our contributors. As instruction is now given to two of the classes, and as opportunities for practice in the various electives are quite numerous, we imagine that the authorities intend to satisfy this desire as fully as possible, and we therefore do not print the article in question. But we take advantage of the opportunity to propose once more the establishment...
...Chronicle, of the University of Michigan, publishes. a long article on Harvard. It is written in a very friendly spirit, and in better English than is generally discovered in that longitude, by a person who appears to consider himself familiar with his subject. His views on some matters, however, are remarkable. The following sentences are so replete with novelty that they deserve attention...