Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...MEETING of the delegates to the Convention of Amateur Ball Players was held at the Astor House, New York, on the evening of the 17th. The Harvard Club was represented by Messrs. Tyler and Hodges. Although the meeting was of great length, but few vital points were discussed. A resolution against the proposed ten men and ten innings was adopted, and the rule allowing underhand throwing was abolished, and that of the Convention of 1870 substituted...
...into their old state of comparative inferiority, are yet open questions. But it seems as if this country was about to learn by experience, what Scandinavia has long practised, that agriculturists can co-operate, as advantageously as other producers, both in selling their products and in buying implements and vital necessaries. The grange of Iowa at the beginning of the season appointed an agent who, it is said, has saved, in purchases, $2,000,000 to the farmers of that State. He was under heavy bonds, of $50,000, to make it sure that he would not betray the trust...
...this is not all. On such a colossal scale was it that "it fused facts back and down into the central force of a personal will, from and upon whose volition universes with their contents flowed, not floated, into true cosmical harmony." We learn, further on, that "in vital matters, man and woman are equal. In functional relation to the cosmical order, each is other's superior." This appalling fact should be borne in mind, and we doubt not that our readers will shape their future courses by the light herein afforded. Some of them, however, may be inclined...