Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...predecessors who tried to solve the material universe; all this was folly and mere fancy to him. He believed that the natural sciences were reserved by the gods for themselves and that all attention should be placed on that which deals with conduct. He was not a systematic thinker like Plato and Spinoza. His great achievement was that he taught the importance of clearness in thinking on ethical questions which is called his inductive process of thinking. So it was after nearly seventy years of such noble teaching that he was condemned to death on the ground of religious heresy...
...appreciated in New York where his excellent and beneficent labors have found the support and co-operation of some of the most intelligent people in the metropolis. It is now some years since Professor Adler started on the career in which he is now proving himself so excellent a thinker and so valuable a man. Himself, the son of a learned rabbi, Professor Adler, as a very young man became strongly affected with atheistic tendencies and undertook after a course of very serious and extensive studies to spread his doctrines through lecturing. Professor Adler has gathered about him a large...
...great West. Although Harvard must envy Columbia for this, she can revert to the past and exclaim that a university in the midst of a large city, and influenced by the rush of business affairs and every-day strife, can never be the home of the deepest thinkers and the most attentive scholars. The very fact that Columbia is in New York may work untold evil instead of countless benefits. True the atmosphere of the metropolis is a great educator, but is it not rather unhealthy when breathed in by those who work upon antiquities or upon quarternious? Philosophy needs...
...Society of Christian Brethren. Whenever Dr. Brooks consents to speak at Harvard he is sure to have a hearty welcome from students of the college, for his interest in Harvard and his earnestness and sincerity in all that he says, combined with his wide reputation both as speaker and thinker, make his words peculiarly valuable. In connection with the meeting to-night we would express our gratification at the circumstance that the two religious societies of the college have united in inviting a speaker to address them...
...through the library. But this aimless wandering inculcates the habit of indiscriminate reading, a habit not to be classed with the custom of omnivorous reading, which is, perhaps, the only safe method to be pursued in a determined course of reading. An omnivorous reader is almost invariably a a thinker of acumen. There is something in being brought face to face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree. We hear again and again the cry that this is an over-read world, and that scholars are degenerating into book-worms. At times some peculiarly...