Word: formula
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...world outside of man. Science assumes that this world is a vast whole, under the control of physical forces; an immense succession of phenomena, every one of which could have been predicted from all eternity by a mind powerful enough to know and to use some exact universal formula. Has such a world any religious aspect? The answer suggested by science is often stated thus: The world shows us universal evolution. Evolution in human nature tends towards the good, and is therefore a progress. Progress tends to realize the moral needs of man, and thus the world has a religious...
...Yale University meeting Monday evening, voted to challenge Harvard to the boat race in accordance with the usual formula...
...blase - in a degree. He is a man of one idea - with a few more added. "Nihil nimis," and not "nimis" even of "nihil nimis," is the unconscious rule of life with him. What such a being will do in any given case cannot be determined by any formula. One can safely trust that he will not be laughed at for a fool, nor avoided as a boor. He will do the commonplace things - for all must. He may do some uncommonplace things - for a few must. More than these general statements in regard to his actions cannot be made...
...been consistently applied, by which the growth of style can be traced, by which we arrive at some knowledge of the poet's mind and art, - these things are due in large part to the "very erratic kite." But the Advocate has happily reduced the question to a mathematical formula, - the Alpha and Omega from which there is no appeal : Mr. Wright = Dowden + Furnivall + ???. This is very pretty, and it doubtless satisfies the ingenious inventors; but more exact Shaksperian scholars will not accept it as proof of the "lunacy" of either Mr. Dowden or Mr. Furnivall. We do not propose...
EDITORIAL boards are retiring about this time. In nearly every paper we have taken up, the exchange column began, "We dip our pen in gall for the last time." This seems to be a universal formula, though what it means it is impossible to say. No black ink at present manufactured can be used without "dipping your pen in gall," and unless you are always going to write with a pencil in the future, it scarcely seems necessary to mention that you use black...