Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American philosophy, it must be realistic. I suspect they will never produce an idealistic philosophy like that of Pleto in ancient times, or speculative systems like these of Spinoza, Leibnity, and Hegel in modern times. The circumstance that Emerson is an American may seem to contradict this, but then Emerson, while he opens glimpses of truth, is not a philosopher; his thoughts are like strung fearls, without system and without connection. On the other hand, the Americans believe that there are things to be known, to be prized and secured, and will never look approvingly on an agnesticism which declares...
...which diminishes competition will diminish in exact ratio the amount of interest taken in our sports, and as a direct result the amount of exercise taken by our undergraduates. We hardly like to realize this perhaps, but it is a fact too important to overlook and too evident to contradict. Twenty years ago the students of Harvard College took practically no exercise in comparison with today. The greater majority of our sports have sprung up since then. Foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, tennis, track athletics, etc, have passed up through deferent stages of development; they started with the school...
...clearer light of the days that followed. But I could not wholly forget the terrible vision. Stephen May-more had vanished utterly from human knowledge, and I - I had seen the face of his murderer. That was the fact which persistently followed me, the conviction I could not contradict. Often I awoke in the middle of the night, shivering and ghost-haunted, from some second vision of death and fate. What was the mystery? Where was Stephen Maymore? Always the old question; no answer, no appeal from this...
...Maude is a student of philosophy, and, with a truly Spencerean somersault of logic, he reduces me ad absurdum. The burden of his proof is that "J. N. M." contradicts himself. Think of this! I charge the Brethren with halfness, with not having bravery enough to take a decided stand, either Orthodox or Liberal; with leaving its constitution in such a way that no Unitarian or Universalist can, with self respect, join the society - for such could be members not by virtue of a clean-cut statement of the constitution, but by its "fair" interpretation, which means by twisting...