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Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Christianity all agree in asserting a revelation, though Christians go so far as to maintain that the revelation made to them was the only true one. There are many other points of similarity in the three religions. Floods, fires, and cataclysms appear in them all; all insist on the immortality of the soul and the immutability of the supreme Being; and all have a heaven and a hell. Of course the details vary, but the general underlying basis remains, and it is this with which theosophy concerns itself...
...will, judgment or conscience is preferable to unswerving allegiance to party." With the resolution thus in shape he proposed to strike at the root of the matter and consider what is a man's chief duty to civil society. Without doubt it is to establish and maintain a civil government that shall promote the chief ends of civil society, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. From this point of view we may readily divide the voters of a state into three classes: First, the conscientious citizens, or men of "independent action"; second, the men who support their parties through...
...meet the necessary expenses it is estimated that subscriptions of three dollars will be none too large unless the numbers willing to maintain the pond is much larger than supposed...
...maintain the theory of three primary colors...
...growing spirit of Harvard indifference, than which no worst pest was ever sent from below," This certainly is a very worthy endeavor, but we feel that the writer has made an implication which is decidedly untrue to college life at present . We wonder on what grounds the Advocate can maintain that there is a growing spirit of "Harvard indifference," The term is one which we believed had almost passed out of use, at least was fast becoming a nonentity. Traces of it still remain, it is true. but who can say justly that it is growing? A few years...