Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Religious Union, Dr. Edward Everett Hale delivered an address on "The National Church of America." He explained that while we have here no established church, the religious thought of the whole American people unifies itself into a national church, of which the fundamental principle is the denial of the old Puritan dogma that man is by nature depraved, and a child of the devil. If Americans had believed this, they would never have allowed universal suffrage...
...December number of the Graduates' Magazine contains some very pointed remarks on the absence about the college of any memorial tablets to mark places of historic interest. As the writer says, "Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble life, are lost to the students at Harvard who never wake to the fact that it is their privilege to pass three or four years amid scenes dignified by the recollections of great...
Various elements enter in to form the belief in immortality. The ancient writers thought that the dream supplied the first germ of life to faith, but the duration of this life was limited. Other things were needed to strengthen and establish belief. The most important element which helped to accomplish this was that of feeling; the dread of death, and the yearning for loved dead. Then the element of desire, whether for the individual or for others had wide influence. In its rude form this element was undoubtedly connected with the thought of self. The deep seated longing for after...
What is the result? We have produced among us that class of men called grinds. These men, living witnesses to the effects of over-study, bring rational study into lowered repute. An association grows up between the thought of application to studies and the thought of men of poor health, unattractive appearance, and stiff manners...
...doctrines of Caesar, who held the view that there was no eternal life, and of Cato and Cicero, both of whom agreed with the views of Caesar. Marcus Aurelius was a more cautious stoic, never directly offering any view upon immortality. The influence which these men held upon Roman thought was very great. The conflicting tendencies of the religion of the second century were mentioned. The hopeless cynicism of Pliny was contrasted with the faith of Vergil, who had a deep consciousness of the ethical demand for retribution...