Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first thought was that religion is both a science and an art, and that full understanding of it as a science is not essential before a man may begin to practise it as an art. Pure speculation is by no means useless, and there are men who seem to be fitted, above everything else, for investigating scientifically the place of religion in the world. White we eagerly await the results of these men's researches. and while every man may push on for himself as far as he can into the knowledge of religious truths, there is no reason...
...other thought was that God not only started the processes of evolution but that he still governs their development. Men realize that God is back of all, the first cause from which everything springs, but they have yet to appreciate fully that God is not dead, that he is not powerless in the presence of his own creations, but that he is still alive, and that his activity still continues. If we understand that God's purpose is the evolution of the world, then we have one object in life, to allow ourselves to become his agents. If we will...
...lack of grasp of the subject, a flippancy of tone that is unbecoming and a general character foreign to good advocate editorials. It were best for the writers to recognize that the fault they find with the plays of the Theatre of Arts and Letters - that the authors "thought to write a play offhand" - is to be avoided also in Advocate editorials...
...simply narrows down to this that out of the $2,600 which are absolutely needed to send an eight to New London, only about eleven hundred have been pledged, and considerably less collected. It is getting late in the season and men cannot afford to put off the thought of doing their share in providing for their crew. It is time that Ninety-six should rise and show some spirit, or else be put down as a class out of sympathy with its surroundings. Let each man feel his individual responsibility, contribute what he can and, in so doing spare...
...neither of these obstacles is so great as the thought that it is unscientific to indorse Christianity. this will be found an entire mistake. "Science is not Christian or anti-Christian, but extra-Christian," and it is a fact that almost all great scientists, even if they did not openly profess Christianity, yet respected it wherever it appeared...