Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only serves to make the final catastrophe less bearable. The great object in life - or rather of existence, for even our few moments of reasoning existence hardly deserve the name of life - I take to be somewhat as follows: in all things to approach as nearly as possible to perfect rest. If the hope of a future state of happiness is not the dream of a mere enthusiast, it is likely that that state will be one of entire physical and mental repose; we shall be in harmony with ourselves, the ego, and with everything not ourselves...
...that cup shall find the dregs bitter. In all things seek regularity, for it is the surest destroyer of thought, and all thought leads to dissatisfaction. Arrange a system of hours which has no time allotted for reflection, and so you may escape it; for he who observes a perfect regularity, and fills his time with trifles, proceeds almost without thought, or at least accustoms his mind to a consideration of the trivial circumstances of each hour, and none other. He is not liable to gusts of feeling. Mingle only with the rich and the well-bred; for the rich...
...Then were stripes for cutting prayers, now three deductions; the mere comparison would almost induce us to absent ourselves for an indefinite period from the "devotional exercises at early morn." Admonitions and marks are of comparatively recent date, and perhaps even these may yet give place to a more perfect system. Thus, as the age advances, more and more is left to the sense of duty, and who can deny that a century hence even censure-marks may be looked upon as a relic of barbarism...
...College were excessive; besides his regular studies, to which he applied himself faithfully and successfully, he had the self-imposed duties of instructing others, and of doing deeds of charity. The race which he ran was too hard a one; but we may believe that his weariness now finds perfect rest...
Vassar Miscellany.FROM the Courant we learn that "the sublimest apocalypse of God, the most overwhelming argument for the existence of an Architect of this golden cathedral of the universe, - a Being of unfathomable attributes of love and perfect goodness, - that has probably been made by soul to soul," has just been delivered at New Haven. Immortalized Yale! But why don't they print it and send it round...