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...part of most men, Dr. Burnett said, to assume things on utterly unsatisfactory grounds. This tendency is manifested when we substitute our feelings of absurdity, religious sentiment, mere physical pleasure, or extreme delight in the beautiful, for reasoning thought. It shows itself also when our moral feelings destroy our true perspective of the beautiful, or when our feelings for the beautiful usurp our moral ideas...
President Eliot delivered an address at the Prospect Union yesterday afternoon on "Just Reverence Consistent with Genuine Democracy." He showed that in order to have a true belief in permanent democracy it is necessary to understand that democracy does not destroy reverence, but increases it in an altered form. The democratic reverence is not a reverence for symbols, but for the facts behind the symbols; an estimate of the true value. The great movement of the world today is towards democracy, which one hundred years from today will exceed any present conception. If the democracy of this great country...
Another standard by which the advancement of nations has been measured is scientific progress. The man of science investigates things material, and reports the manifestations of some of the brute forces of nature. This knowledge is used merely to make things that will increase bodily comfort, or will destroy enemies. So long as science does not teach us of the author of the uniformity of nature, it fails to develop character...
...Corporation build in the Yard an expensive dormitory of modern construction and conveniences, does not begin to meet the evil squarely; and the evil must be met squarely, even at a great sacrifice. A remedy that would go to the root of the difficulty would be one which would destroy that condition of affairs under which men are accidentally thrown 'into personal contact at the outset of their college life almost entirely, so far as concerns the formation of new personal ties, upon the general basis of their comparative money allowances. I believe that Harvard should take heroic measures...
...words as to this remarkable hero, John Brown. He was one of those Americans who foresaw that the conflict between the opposing forms of civilization was not only irresistible but was coming to a bloody issue in spite of all compromises and palliation. He saw that slavery must be destroyed or it would destroy the nation. And he was a man of such intrepid courage that he was willing to undertake in all calmness of mind what in another person would have been insanity. Invincible courage, even in a doubtful cause, is sure to inspire and find applause among other...