Word: humanitis
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...specially noteworthy characteristics are, in addition to its general interest in outer nature: (1) Its belief that the whole order of nature is subject to rigid laws of a mechanical type; (2) Its faith in the power of the human reason to know absolute truth; and (3) Its fondness of mathematical methods in Philosophy...
...higher order; this is his "universal order " eternal, infinite, self-determined, complete in itself. This is Spinoza's God. This order must have infinite ways of expression, hence Body and Mind. Whereever there is a body there is a thought, not necessarily produced or effective, but parallel; the human mind is a part of the divine intellect and is a thought thinking of the human body; we are in and of God. The wise man in any state meditates on life not death, the lusts of the world do not touch him and he never ceases...
...human life we have Instinct, Enduring Courage and Contemplative Insight. With the help of this last reflective curiosity we study ourselves and our neighbors. So the historical office of philosophers has always been to reward the instincts of their own age. And his labor is not in vain because truth is so many sided that all these various thinkers, representing each so many different views may all see the truth alike, but from different sides...
...Human life is all a movement: it ought to be a forward movement. One part of it is as real as another. It is too common to consider college life simply as a mimic life intended to prepare men for realities which come later. Men who have graduated do not find their aims more worthy, nor their struggle more serious than those they had at college. Yet the feeling that education all comes before life begins makes it easier for some men to be tempted to waste the valuable present. A generation ago most of the preaching from the pulpit...
...spite of every hesitation, I think your answer still would be that here in college, on the whole, the crown which is incorruptible-the crown of character and service-is set before the eyes of men who are ready to see it, and the human powers are bidden to recognize in it, and it alone, their worthy goal...