Word: religion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Archangel, true to its motto of "Religion and Science," comes to us with edifying articles on "Evil Company," "Religious Principle of Public Liberty," "The Jesuits," "Art of Sculpture," etc. The Archangel's lighter side consists of the usual newspaper clippings, such rhetorical questions as "Who is not wishing for happy Summer Days?" and the new and original joke, "Will the Russians eat Turk-ey on Thanksgiving?" Its one solitary editorial, apropos of nothing, informs us that "hardly a day dawns" but Americans are "startled by the publication of a new book." Should this be a story-book...
...that the Library owns only one copy of "some of the standard books of reference" (the italics are our own); secondly, that "the Library fund is being expended in trashy French novels, or massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion...
...massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion," the writer may possibly know what he means, but I confess I have not the least idea...
...Index, having devoted last year to proving that higher education in America tends to suicide, intends, during the coming winter, to expose the total depravity, to put it mildly, which exists in colleges that have not "about them the influence of the true [Roman Catholic] religion." "Frequently," says the Index, "students of Yale, of Harvard, of Rutgers, of Cornell, fall into the clutches of the law, and as a consequence are treated just as their offence merits. Generally the charge is 'drunk and disorderly,' and the customary alternative of ten dollars and costs, or ten days, is the last resource...
...Handbook of Architecture," or Knight's "History of England," is hardly aware how much sarcasm there is in his words. Meanwhile the Library fund is being expended in trashy French novels or massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion...