Word: understand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there described. At the same time even today in spite of His revelation to the world, He is the mystery of our religion. Although in the present age we are inclined to look as much as possible to exact science, we are forced to admit that we can not understand the world or even our own lives. In the same way much of religion is a mystery, and this indeed gives it much of its strength. Upon it depend faith, hope, modesty and docility, and without it our belief would be commonplace...
...poet and a moralist. He is not content to give men a reflected view of life alone, but he uses his mirror as a medium through which to lead men on to righteousness. He is the chief poet of the higher inward experience of man. In order to understand the character of Dante it will be necessary to consider his surroundings and the tendencies of the age in which he lived...
...Crothers that since Phillips Brooks, no man has shown greater depth of spiritual interpretation; yet of the students who neglected to hear him, few probably realized the chance they were throwing away. If this unfortunate heedlessness could be overcome and the large body of students brought to understand the real worth of the chapel services, no advocate of compulsory attendance could find fault with Harvard's principle of voluntary worship...
Captain Brewer intends to have the freshman team next year coached by men who have already had experience with the 'varsity, and who understand 'varsity methods thoroughly. They will be allowed to develop their own men as much as possible and only the most promising candidates will be sent to the 'varsity squad...
...study of folk-lore is important as being the deepest investigation of history. Many scholars scarcely realize that until the history of primitive thought is explored and understood, we cannot understand human thought as a whole...