Word: mereness
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...BAIN'S treatment of the mind and its faculties is peculiar. Instead of following the beaten path of theoretical philosophy of the past, which is occupied with the mind as a mere abstraction, he attempts to study it in the only way in which a knowledge of it can be of practical use to us, - through its manifestations in connection with body. By basing his philosophy on accurate analyses of the mind and body, he has done much toward the establishment of truth for the sake of the benefit which may be derived from it, inasmuch as the study...
...wish to obtain pleasure or to get rid of pain, and that a feeling of right or duty was never considered in men's actions. There is in every man's nature something which calls for higher springs of action and exerts a more powerful influence than mere pleasure or pain; and to account for these as Mr. Bain does is to annihilate all sense of obligation, and to appeal to the sensualistic feelings which we have in common with the brute. All the world unite in praising one who sacrifices his self-interest in support of what he believes...
...which is that a girl was going to have a spread and was drowned just before partaking of it. This original plot is clothed in seventeen verses of "full-orbed moon," "castle gray," "quiet stream," "gloomy pall," etc., etc. How long will it be before students will learn that mere permutation of high-sounding epithets to form metre is not poetry? The paper is under the management of a new board, which begins its duties with an editorial, the first part of which contains an apology for writing anything at all, and the last a sort of prospectus...
...Mongrel, for neither University nor College can that race be called which is between mere combinations of colleges and scientific schools...
...separate them as much as possible from the outside world, live these innocent prisoners. Their age varies from eight to eighteen years. Here they pass ten years of their youth, the most beautiful period of their lives; the period at which the soul, opening to the joys of mere existence, demands nothing but air and light. A corner of blue sky above their heads is the limit of their horizon. Have criminals any less? They are divided by ages and classes in their plays, as well as in their studies. In the one as in the other they are always...