Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Consider the second man. Suppose he gave himself up to his natural inclinations and got as much pleasure as he could in a worldly way. Sometime he will realize what he is making of himself and that his life is wholly useless unless he helps along the great purpose of all life...
...larger outlook over men and things, to a retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness that comes with age to good books as to good men. Mere scholarship is as useless as the collecting of old postage stamps. Kant used to say that there was nothing in the world so dreary as the company of mere scholars. With nothing but Lemprire's Dictionary and Chapman's Homer, Keats at twenty...
...only other feasible alternative-reliance on coast defences,- unsatisfactory. (1) Inadequate for the defensive. (2) Useless for the offensive...
...exact sciences differ so much from actual work in the outside world that training in the former seems to make a man useless for the latter, for exact science calls for consideration of every detail, while in life we have as a rule no further calculations than rough approximations of probabilities. This fact tends to make the man trained in science hesitate when any question comes up, weighing so long the advantages and disadvantages of any plan of action that he cannot bring himself to act in any definite way. What then are the advantages of a scientific training, what...
...prayers and hymns of the Episcopal Church are in words that convey the deepest meaning that is in the power of language, and if we consider carefully what we say we think it is not possible that we should be sincere. If we cannot be, it is more than useless to repeat these prayers and phrases that are only so many empty words. It hurts ourselves and it hurts the Church. We can bring ourselves, however, to say these prayers and to mean them by comparing our own very imperfect lives with the life of Christ, and when...