Word: merely
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...outer world is that it is describable. As such, however, it turns out to be a world of a "well-knit" order; for only the "well-knit" is describable. Hence the world of Realism has "laws" in it; and these laws themselves turn out, when freed from our mere appreciative comments and additions, to be, in the last analysis laws, of "matter and motion." The describability of phenomena in space and time is thus assumed. Yet when one analyzes in what describality consists, and then asks whether space and time and matter and motion themselves are or can be ultimately...
...cause in which their efforts are expended neither is nor ought to be despised by the best men in the country, will not fail to strengthen the proper spirit of athletics in our college. We are very sure that their reception was not given in the spirit of mere excitement over an unexpected victory, but in the way of showing their deep respect to hard work as soon as its results have become apparent...
...know all and we know nothing. His inspiration is more concrete than Hegel's but probably vaguer than the vaguest realism. He has not profited by the lesson of philosophy. His idea is great but not satisfactory. The doctrine of evolution teaches that there is something behind the mere mechanism of change, it does not remove ideals but presupposes them...
...except the brilliant game which Harvard won. Men passed one another with smiles on their faces and near neighbors could not help shaking hands. No one about Cambridge can remember such a day and we have no record of a like. At first sight, all this enthusiasm about a mere foot ball game seems the height of absurdity, and we have no doubt that our actions will be criticised severely by outsiders. But if looked at below the surface, the result of Saturday's game means more than the ordinary athletic victory. It means that Harvard has stuck...
...Semitic and Gentile traditions there are periods of low aspirations and moral degeneracy, in which we usually find men arising who are reformers of, and superior to, the masses around them. They were eloquent teachers but in all of them we see mere gropers after the divine, until the greatest Prophet of all comes, Jesus Christ. The wise reformers who came before him proclaimed the nearer and nearer approach of the Great Light. At last it came, and the blackness of death was illuminated. Buddha taught a brotherhood and equality but only in misery; Christ teaches an equality...