Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every instant. At every stage of its growth every organism not only is, but is passing away from what is. Moreover, nothing can exist in only itself. Its purpose is ministry, and by ministry it preserves itself. Self preservation would be self destruction. So it is with the "independent" thinker, who refuses to follow the universal theory. Mental progress means to part with our own pet whims and obey the universal theories and principles...
...religion, Christ is a door, through which Divinity comes to Humanity, just as the artist, the thinker, are door between the realms of beauty, and truth, and men. Through Christ God reveals himself to men. There is an innate passion in the human mind for expansion and one of the forms which this passion takes is a search for God. It is to this searching that the words come "I am the door...
That criticism which attempts to prove that Carlyle is not great as a thinker but only as a word-painter, is one-sided and false...
Professor Lyon, at the Chapel yesterday evening, spoke en the character of Jeremiah, on his times, life and teachings. He said: Jeremiah was the greatest of the prophets, not the deepest thinker, but the strongest character. Naturally timid, the conviction that he spoke the words of God gave him courage, and he spoke words of truth for all times and all peoples. Sympathetic and patriotic, yet he was severe in the face of persistent wrong-doing. There are three permanent elements of truth underlying the prophet's thought (1) there is but one God, (2) the government of the world...
...College Girls" is interesting and is refreshing from the very nature of the subject. There are a couple of clever pieces of fiction, a review of the political situation and a lot of letters of John Stuart Mill. These latter give an insight into the life of a great thinker and are decidedly interesting. The leading article in verse is entitled "Down by the Shore in December," and Mr. Parsons name is at the bottom of it. This alone is sufficient to make it good...