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Word: agnosticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thomas' second appearance is at the last supper. When Christ says, "Whither I go ye know, and the way ye know," he interrupts saying, "We know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way?" Here we have a perfect illustration of the agnostic spirit of this age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chapel Service. | 4/29/1889 | See Source »

Only a short time ago we laid to rest a leader in science who declared himself to be at the same time an evolutionist, a theist and a believer in the Nicene creed. Gray was like Darwin in respect to the religious use which he made of evolution. The judgment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Asa Gray as Compared with Darwin and Huxley. | 2/22/1888 | See Source »

The announcement that we are to have the exceptional good fortune to have Professor Felix Adler lecture in Sanders Theatre on Monday evening is by far the most welcome that we have seen in the calendar for a long time. The Philosophical Club is to be complimented and thanked for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1888 | See Source »

"Dr. Royce abounds in philosophle smartness of this sort, and he has the junior modern's faith in no faith. * * * * Practically, the whole book is one of fresh, effective scepticism, for the sake of a speculative notion which will mean next to nothing to average minds, leaving the result of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Attack on Harvard. | 4/18/1885 | See Source »

President Porter, of Yale says that "the rush and hurry of our modern activity needs the infusion of a calmer spirit and of steadier thoughts. Its rash and eager generalizations and its exaggerated statements need strong and steady thinkers who were trained in the school of severe definitions and sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE MUST RETAIN GREEK. | 1/19/1884 | See Source »

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