Word: theism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...religion of my country is a simple, natural religion. Discarding sectarian name, we call it Theism, always keeping clear the distinction between that and Deism. Deism is abstract, logical, negative in its nature; theism embodies the expressions of the devout and the revelations of God. Deism may believe in God, but that God is washed out by the ideas of the man himself. Deism and theism alike must embody themselves in creeds, rites and observances, which have unfortunately been allowed to obscure the grand issues of religion...
...warmth and loyalty. The speeches were of the greatest interest. No one who heard the "Reminiscences of Louis Agassiz," by one who knew him so well, will forget the eloquent tribute paid to the great man's intellectual sincerity, to his generous devotion to his work, to his unflinching theism. "Why Harvard is better than Yale" was ably demonstrated by a Yale...