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Yesterday afternoon in the Physical Laboratory an interesting lecture upon "Monotheism" was delivered by Professor Toy. The speaker said that Monotheism had for its funadmental principle the oneness of the Deity. It is to be regarded as one single line in human advancement and naturally allies itself with the highest thoughts of the Diety...
...lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human being; the best training any young man can get is a habit of grappling with them and conquering them...
...which with literature, the Atlantic announces its devotion. The woman's suffrage paper is slightly "pro" and very much "con," but produces nothing new in argument, or any old truth in a new light. The electricity paper is really not alarming, as the chief danger seems to be from human carelessness and not electrical viciousness. The Paris exhibition paper is clever and brilliant, but somewhat too picturesque, as when we are pictured a woman of "pony build and fruity complextion, and aquiline features with sharp spirited curves." The impression resulting from such a description is more picturesque than definite...
...Jefferson Physical Laboratory. He said that nothing seems simpler to us than forming words and indicating sounds by letters but that the analysis of even the shortest words is hard to make. Until lately it has been universally thought that the formation of an alphabet was a task beyond human power to perform, and the Talmudic Jews claimed that the letters were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, by God. It is only in the last part of the present century that the alphabet has been found to be as much human as any other part of the languages. There...
From an economical standpoint, the services of the trained medical man are in ever increasing demand since all construction of what ever kind has as its basis of plan the needs of the human machine; in the health department of our cities, in the control of our manufactures, in the construction of our buildings, in the conduct of our education, the physician becomes more and more an impartial and trusted arbiter. The importance of the medical profession therefore in all its relations to our daily life is one which is constantly growing, and with such growth there is a correspondingly...