Word: childishly
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...Ethel and Grace," however, is unsuccessful. Two childish students and a flirt don't make a pretty combination in themselves, and when they are introduced into a story with a common-place plot, and written carelessly, they have no excuse for existence. The author of "Ethel and Grace" can do much better work...
...grasp of external fact was always feeble in comparison to his perception of his own inner life. His religion always looked for its ultimate sanction to his own consciousness. This extreme subjectivity manifests itself further in a disposition to doubt the reality of the outward aspects of nature. His childish idealism took form in a belief that 'life might be a dream or I an angel and all the world a deception, my fellow angels by a playful device concealing themselves from me and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world...
...seems almost childish after all that has been said about the water in the gymnasium, to add another protest against the present unpardonable state of things. It seems all the more needless to say anything since the grievance is one not difficult to remedy, but one which a very little attention could set right. For some time past there has been a great deal of irregularity in the supply of hot water in the gymnasium. Some evenings it will be shut off altogether, before most of the squads have finished training; at other times the supply of hot water will...
...profession is any more sacred than another. What makes anything sacred is God's presence, and God ought to be present with us at all times. We ought to bear in mind that we are men come here to enlarge our lives. We ought to put away the "childish things" of life, and vulgarity, blasphemy, immorality, are childish things...
...discovery. The real meaning and secret of his being is that his life is allied to the life of God, and that the life of God is ready to express itself. Nothing could satisfy him except the life of God. This is the whole record of human life; from childish innocence through youthful dissatisfaction, disgust aids It consciousness to sonship with God. But there is another call, the call of the bride. The bride is humanity, that humanity where there is no bond or free, white or back, master or servant but one brotherhood of God. This humanity was realized...