Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...city of Boston has occasion to perform, in the course of his business, from January to December? The most jagged fractions, such as would hardly ever be found in actual business operations, e. g. 11-29 or 13-27, are piled one on top of another, to produce unreal and impossible difficulty; and the child, having been furnished with such an arithmetical monstrosity, is set to multiplying or dividing it by another "compound and complex fraction" as unreal and ridiculous as itself. All this sort of thing in the teaching of young children is careless and mischievous...
...remained as that which was permanent in the old Jewish system of theology and in the Christian church. In fact, Christ's life is but a monstrous, aspiring dream, which for centuries has astounded and will continue to astound men. The dreams are what to the lower nature seem unreal, - but the things which are seen are temporal and the things which are unseen are permanent. As to nations, so to individuals, visions arise of duty, of nobleness. And although such a vision will often disappear, still, having once shined upon our inward eyes, its inspiration remains after its rays...
...felt myself helpless as a dead man. I seemed to be in another world; that familiar college room was strange and unreal. A wonderful enchantment possessed me. I looked at the clock: the hands were moving irregularly backward and forward, though it had stopped ticking. There was an escritoire in one corner of the room, and the cover of this fell down with a loud bang. Inside was a man's skull. The pictures seemed to move in their frames. I could see the figure of a dog run madly back and forth; the horses in "Aurora" were galloping furiously...