Word: truthfully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fourth beast was like a flying eagle," taken from Revelation. All the Revelation of St. John, he said, must not be taken as a literal description of heaven. It is an allegory, and all through the Bible we find God teaches His people constantly by allegories. They make the truth easier to comprehend. Some people find in a literal interpretation of the Bible much reason to scoff at Christianity. Who, they say, cares to look forward to a future existence spent in a white robe, with a golden crown on his head listening to music? or who is terrified...
...them must be wrong, and therefore all must be excluded. The rule has been, rather, that all should be given the use of the University buildings, in order to allow free play of opinion and contact of antagonistic ideas; all this to further Harvard's unending search after Truth. The sentiment has been that of tolerance: not the suppression of free discussion, but the promotion...
...there be not something in nearness which is fatal to the heroic. If Prometheus had a Boswell, would not the vulture have been Niebuhrized into the liver-complaint, and he himself, the thief of fire from heaven, into a palaeozoic Dr. Franklin who amused himself with electrical experiments? The truth is that so long as the nature of man is dual, so long as he is an animal as well as a spiritual being, the element of humor evolved by the contrast puts the heroic out of countenance. That old story fathered upon Cromwell, of his being found...
...never felt. It seems the revelation of a new heaven and new earth, and to contain in itself its own justification. Then suddenly recollecting his duty, he shuts the window, calls them back to their tasks, and is equally well pleased and more discursive in enforcing on them the truth that the moral of all this is that in order to be happy they must be virtuous...
...real truth of the matter is that until recently the Scientific School was not an important part of the University and that no one there ever thought of speaking at Commencement. Less than ten years ago, there were only fourteen men in the whole School. Today as it is rapidly growing to be one of the most significant departments, there is good reason for having a representative at Commencement, and we should suppose that, if there was some student really able to be this representative, he would be welcomed by the Committee on Commencement Parts. It is, however...