Word: upward
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...report of this second committee was published in 1894. The members of the committee emphasized the value of class-recitations in education. They asserted that the entire upward movement in the elementary schools has been caused by the employment of professionally educated teachers, and that one-fourth of all the teachers in the country are now thus educated...
...traitors of various degrees. By this pool they meet and conquer Dis, or Satan, once the fairest of Heaven's angles. The picture of Satan is the most horrible and monstrous to be found in the work. After leaving Dis they turn their faces upward till at length they come forth upon the surface of the earth to see again the stars...
There is a soul in man, a subtle, indefinable force which constitutes our indestructible individualities, and by which we are known to ourselves and to each other. There is no limit to its upward growth, no boundary to its expansion; and the Bible story shows us that it is this soul which alone is immortal. The surest way to become convinced of this immortality is through our affections...
...cuts, the first showing a rock in which are cut three gates, the inscription over the middle one being "mater amoris," the second showing the meeting of the hero after he had passed through the gate with several woman, one of whom, a motherly looking woman, is standing, pointing upward...
...only remedy for scornfulness is an upward view. As long as a man sees only what is beneath him he must remain on the "seat of the scornful." If he will only attach himself to something high, to the Law of God as expressed. by religion, he must inevitably change his plan and become...