Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mind. There is no call for it: both lay emphasis on a different means, but both really have the same end in view, and would find, if they threw away their hostile feelings, that the different means were not incompatible, but that all are needed. So long as men insist on their own views and present inclinations, the University will tend to go from one extreme to the other. There is a great need for a willingness on the part of all kinds of men to see the truth in other men's positions as well as their own. Thus...
Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Christianity all agree in asserting a revelation, though Christians go so far as to maintain that the revelation made to them was the only true one. There are many other points of similarity in the three religions. Floods, fires, and cataclysms appear in them all; all insist on the immortality of the soul and the immutability of the supreme Being; and all have a heaven and a hell. Of course the details vary, but the general underlying basis remains, and it is this with which theosophy concerns itself...
...outward forms and feels himself therefore a sort of outcast is taken at his words too often. There are few, who though not understanding some of the forms, do not feel deeply the influence of our church. We of one church, in all justice, have no right to insist that the tests of other churches are the same as those of our own. To any Christian organization perfect loyalty must be extended, for it is our duty to reach out to everybody as a Christian. Neither must we condemn a non church-going man. Often he cannot understand the forms...
...which every true lover of manly sports cannot brook. Thus far we suppose that Yale also agrees with us, for if not, she would be truly inconsistent with "Yale spirit" as we have formerly known it. But if this is true, why is it that she will obstinately, uncompromisingly insist on a rule when she sees that it must inevitably lead to just such an unsettled condition at the end of the season, providing each team wins on its home grounds? Or at least, if she chooses to insist, it is strange that she should seem content to let things...
Finally among the English crews nearly all the men swing a little bit out of the line of the boat. This swing is very little, indeed but still it is quite perceptible. The coaches always try to correct this but do not rigidly insist upon...