Word: thyself
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short prayer, which was followed by the reading of the Seventy-second Psalm. The long prayer was a petition for unity and peace among all people. After a hymn sung by the congregation, Prof. Harris gave out the text from St. Matthew, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This was humanitarianism. A comparison of unreligious and Christian humanitarianism would be the subject of the sermon. Humanitarianism not based on religion claimed for itself a higher usefulness than that which was based on religion. For it tolerated no waste in worship, a priesthood and other religious forms...
...Love thy neighbor as thyself" is not a ruling maxim in the kingdom of exchange. Men say, indeed, that self-interest is king in this domain of business and the Christian law does not apply to the factory and the counting-room. Business is business. This common sentiment of the street takes its rise from Adam Smith and his school, whose false a priori assumption that self-interest is supreme over benevolence dominated economic theories for 100 years and whose bitter fruits we are still reaping, since such doctrine finds congenial soil in the natural heart. Smith and his contemporaries...
...Spirit of the Times of April 10 under the heading of "Physician Heal Thyself" quotes from a recent editorial in the CRIMSON on the loose manner in which our athletics are reported in the outside press, and comments as follows: "And yet this apostle of accuracy and judgment continues to prattle about the Mott Haven team,' "the Mott Haven Cup,' 'going to Mott Haven,' competing at Mott Haven,' etc., etc." Now in the first place, if the Spirit of the Times knows more about college athletics than the athletes themselves, we stand corrected, or if it feels competent to dictate...
...animal state; or by religion, raising him above self-consciousness. The method Christianity officers to accomplish this, is the cultivation of altruistic motives. "Love the Lord thy God with all thy soul and with all thy might and thy soul and with all thy might and thy neighbor as thyself." As altruism, or unselfishness increases, death loses its fears. It will be said in future centuries, that in this age men begin to think less about death...
...count thyself fair Harvard...