Word: worship
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Athletics hold a prominent place, and although their intense worship is an abuse, it is much better than the dissipation of continental university students, and provides a great disciplinary force for American men. Although less scholarly than their European contemporaries, American students are better fitted for life, and in every one of them is a desire to make America great, which makes American universities not only establishments of advanced learning, but centres for the inculcation of the national spirit...
...theological ethics, a theory of evolution, and the growth of socialism, during the past century are ripe indications of the possibility of this democratic religion. Of these, ethics has given us a glimpse of the worship of humanity, evolution of the fellowship of humanity, and socialism of the organization of humanity. Through the international workingmen's unions, also, we begin to see, through socialism, the realization of some part of our conception of a universal society. All these great needs must be welded together into one great functionary unit of society, guided by the old motto of the monks, "Laborare...
...Some Remarks on a Pretended Answer to a Discourse Concerning the Common-Prayer Worship with an Exhortation to the Churches in New England," by Increase Mather...
...last speaker for the negative, dealt with the injustice of the Act to the State itself; for all its evils, it did not accomplish the very end for which it was passed. It neither separated the Church from the State, nor did it grant that freedom of religious worship which it purported to give; for by the provisions of the measure, the State retained a wide control over the work of the Church, in its organization, function, and influence. Moreover, by the Association Law of 1901 the French Government already had the power at hand to remedy any evils...
Criticism, said Mr. Murray, has to a great extent shattered the former conception that the Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more probable that he was an imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism...