Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unpleasant to have to call the attention of the freshmen to the fact that they have a base ball nine which is playing games in Cambridge. It would seem that they were ignorant of this very obvious truth to judge from the number of men who have been in the habit of watching their nine play. At the game with Technology there were hardly half a dozen. It is discouraging for a team not to feel that some interest is being taken in its movements; to know that they are being watched by supporters instead of by an indifferent crowd...
...only for the world of men's experiences, whether that is parallel with the physical world or not. Religious history is the record, not of what men have found in the world, but of what they have put into it; only psychology and philosophy are able to see the truth in the miracles of religion and at the same time respect the integrity of the physical sciences...
...need of a science in ethics has been felt for 2,000 years. It haunted Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, but they could give no solution. Even the stoics gave us no ethics in the light of science. The Christian revelation came in finally, with the doctrines of divine truth, and raised mankind. The idea of a science of ethics came to Francis Bacon. Today, the deplorable element in the advance of science, is that the physical sciences have exalted themselves, and imagine that they replace the heart. They draw all the attention. But in the study of a labor movement...
There are several different forms of tolerance, but the best form, and that most to be striven for, is the one which, recognizing the largeness of truth, grants that our friend who differs from us, may have a glimpse of the truth, which, although not seen by us, is nevertheless truth. If we have a personal devotion to God, we shall find that the nearer we come to God, the true solution of the universe, the closer we are drawn to each other...
...evening, spoke en the character of Jeremiah, on his times, life and teachings. He said: Jeremiah was the greatest of the prophets, not the deepest thinker, but the strongest character. Naturally timid, the conviction that he spoke the words of God gave him courage, and he spoke words of truth for all times and all peoples. Sympathetic and patriotic, yet he was severe in the face of persistent wrong-doing. There are three permanent elements of truth underlying the prophet's thought (1) there is but one God, (2) the government of the world is righteous, and the permanency...