Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whole the number is very satisfactory. The individual articles are perhaps in some cases of less merit than has been the instance in some numbers of the Advocate. It is, however, up to the usual good standard of the paper. From one particular point of view it deserves praise, in that most of the contributions, both of fact and fiction, deal with college topics. If undergraduates would more closely follow this principle in their writings, they would avoid the criticism so frequently brought against them of attempting to discuss matters beyond their experience, not to say above their comprehension...
General Booth's scheme may be styled a Wesley movement with economics added; that is, it combines a sound practical view of economics with religious fervor...
...anything is done, however, we sincerely hope that it will be pushed through with some energy, and not be allowed to fizzle out as did a concert given with a similar end in view not many years ago. On this occasion, will be remembered, owing to negligence on the part of someone, since clubs sang to nearly empty be as successful . If properly managed, this scheme will be as successful here as elsewhere, and would relieve the strain on the overburdened pocket-books of the undergraduates...
...second form of the religious consciousness, and the one into which this first superficial optimism easily passes, is Mysticism of the type exemplified by Spinoza and by the "Imitation." This declares evil to be a necessary truth from the finite and relative point of view, but declares it to be nevertheless in a higher sense, and from the absolute point of view, an illusion. Yet this notion again, as our historical discussion has shown, proves to be very near indeed to a pessimism. The way from Spinoza to Schopenhauer is short...
...even in this fashion it is still true that one great element of the evil in the world remains not only unexplained, but from our finite point of view inexplicable. Such evil as tends to make the world serious, and even tragic, may be justified by its very significance as a part of the stern, moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with...