Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said, tried to unite the corporeal and the spiritual, the real and the ideal. He took facts and in his attempts to make them appear picturesque and poetic he exaggerated grossly. It was this that offended the taste of M. Taine. He, in his characteristic love for accuracy and truth, could not but depreciate such a method...
...world. Some people have said that a new religion for all nations is necessary, that our old religions are all at fault in that they lay too much stress on individual salvation. But all that is needed is that men should shake off their old prejudices and recognize the truth that men of all religions are the same everywhere and that we have common interests with all of them. We sometimes think that we are the most highly cultured race of all peoples and we tend to divide and classify people from a very narrow point of view. If sometimes...
...matters. Others cannot know and appreciate the greatness of the University till we students know and appreciate it ourselves. From these words we cannot expect a sudden exodus to the museums nor a crowding of the college chapel simply for the sake of information; if we have uttered a truth, the truth will take care of itself...
There are two kinds of theology, a stagnant theology, which claims that we know all about God that we ever can know, and which is unwilling to bring modern science to bear; second, a progressive theology which always is striving for the truth and which tries to bring theology to as reasonable and scientific a position as is possible. The first kind was the theology of the middle ages and it is but natural that this should always be at war with natural science. This struggle between science and the stagnant theologist has left an impression which gives to modern...
...this principle is true in cases where nature does not enter, how much greater must be its truth when applied to the life of man! In explaining the complexity of this life, with its ever varying outward forms, and its development in countless directions, analysis must always fail; for the analytical and mechanical methods of examining nature of necessity neglect one side, and that the most important, of natural life,-the mental side. Naturalists confess that the field of mind lies beyond their reach...