Word: evolutionism
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Education and educational institutions are of quite recent origin, compared with the other elements and institutions of the world at large. Similarly, then, we may say that educational government is quite recent compared with political government. Political government has had a long history, and has passed through so many changes...
In our columns we print this morning,- and with deep regret,- the ultimatum of the President and Fellows of the University in regard to the petition for voluntary prayer. Signed by an overwhelming majority of the undergraduates, endorsed by many of the prominent alumni of the college, and strongly approved...
But another step remained to be taken in the evolution of the Devil. In Dante the Devil is still powerless against the Almighty. He is chained up in the lowest circle of hell. It was in Milton that the Devil became truly grand. Here he is represented as comparatively free...
After Milton comes the classical age, and the Christian mythology ceases to inspire poetry. The classical poets return to the dead and formal use of the personifications and abstractions of the heathen mythology. We have the Devil of De Foe's matter-of-fact "History;" but here the Devil is...
The Yale Courant, describing the Peabody Museum, gives utterance to the following bon mot. "In a large room on the first floor, lectures on scientific subjects are frequently given, one on the evolution of a Princeton man from a lump of New Jersey mud being especially popular."