Word: creation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasantest features of the profession are the chances of seeing men. The engineer is cosmopolitan. He will be employed more abroad in the future. Construction, too, is next to what is pleasantest of all things, creation. Variety and the element of uncertainty in his work are also attractive. There is no science which the engineer does not lay under tribute. He has as a result of his work, that he is contributing to the general prosperity, and is making the lives of his fellow men happier, safer and more profitable to themselves. The pecuniary rewards of the profession are very...
...last issue of the Nation contains a new attempt to picture the terrible state of religious feeling at Harvard. Again we hear the antiquated wail that our "study of geology and of the doctrines of evolution" have slowly disintegrated our belief in the "old Bible stories of creation." We are represented as believing that "all religion is a sham, well enough for our ancestors and for old women, but, in the light of modern science, a mere delusion." The pen of the enlightened writer does not pause before that tabooed subject, "compulsory prayers." How pleasing and how refreshing...
...much more efficient after he has learned it. One trouble is, that in estimating college graduates, business men, as well as some others, are apt to pick out, as a standard, the few cheap characters which every college sends out, and which neither education nor anything short of re-creation could fit for a prominent sphere of action...
...know what was the first dream of man. But there is, certainly, no good reason for doubting that to Adam in his lonely bliss in the garden, there came his first sad experience of life, as he lay asleep under the trees on a moonlight night before the creation of Eve, and that as the rib was taken from his side he groaned heavily and dreamed that the pleurisy was tormenting him. I must believe that believe that this was the original of all dreams. Since that dream, indeed, millions of sons of Adam have dreamed fancies that would create...
...greatest Devil of all, from a literary point of view, seems to me to be Goethe's Mephistopheles. He has little in common with Milton's Satan. There is none of the grandeur, indomitable will, and unconquerable love of independence and power, which mark the creation of the great Puritan poet. This is the modern Devil. He has seen through this great humbug which men call the world. He has no desire to get himself into trouble by trying to overturn the powers that be. Of course they are all wrong, but then he likes to make an occasional morning...