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...would attain this longed for period of perfection we must begin by overcoming the difficulties which lie at our feet. We all want to begin at the top of the ladder without climbing up round by round through every obstacle and disappointment until we reach the goal...
...would attain what is highest and best in life, we must study historical religion. The broadening, which is the result of this study, should develope into a sweet reasonableness which will make us interpret every creed at its best...
...branches with foliage to appropriate from the air the other requisite materials for food. The root increases in thickness, the branches contunue their growth until this intruder actually crowds out of existence the tree upon which it first began to grow. These roots, thus growing in the air, attain sometimes great size; logs from twenty to fifty feet in length and four feet square are obtained in large quantities. The magnificent specimens obtained by the University are respectively four and four and one-half feet in diameter...
...human life often seems to a man to be an anti-climax. A young man starts out in the world with high ideals, striving to be perfect, the best in everything, the superlative in all his work. But as he grows older and sees how hard it is to attain even mediocrity, his ideals usually fall. He drops from the superlative to the comparative. He is trying to do better. Later he is content if he obtains the positive, if he can do well, not better than anyone else. So it seems as if all through a man's life...
...business of a Natural History Society must be primarily to promote the study and the knowledge of science among its members; a debating society must first of all give men an opportunity for learning to debate; both, however, can do more than this. A Natural History Society does not attain its highest end till it interests others in science; a debating society cannot produce the best debaters till it brings in from the outside world men who are themselves models in debate, and it cannot be most useful till it gives the public a chance to hear the history...