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Although the question of pessimism has already been covered, yet it may not be out of place to make a special application of the principle of sincerity to the subject. The idea has in some way gotten abroad that a pessimist is a child of the devil, with notions accordingly diabolical. Yet the fact is that the pessimist simply believes that more misery than happiness exists in the world. The optimist holds the opposite. Everyone grants that an optimist who writes pessimistically should be condemned for insincerity. But few seem to realize that if a man's most sober...
Yesterday, Dr. Hart exhibited to members of History 13 a very curious book, once the property of John Harvard, entitled "The Christian Warfare against the World, the Flesh, and the Devil." The date of the publication of this book is 1634. The book is of special interest in being the only one saved from the great fire which long ago destroyed the Harvard library, and so is the only reminiscence of the founder of the university which we possess...
...first brought clearly before the public eye. Aside from the great advantage accruing to mankind from a just appreciation of the flea, the learned men of the time declared that, with this wonderful machine, they had discovered many new monsters; and one savant affirmed that he had seen the devil himself...
There was early an idea that the action of many supernatural forces would be discovered by the powerful eye of the microscope; and the microscopist of the last century was regarded, by his servants and others, as somehow in league with that devil, whose discovery was due to the savant and the humble "flea glass" of the century before...
...Devil took out Medusa...