Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attitude of man towards his fellow man constitutes morality, and this morality, or moral sense, is one of the chief differences between man and the lower animals. In man it is brought to a high degree of development, but in the lower animals it is scarcely noticeable, although examples of it are sometimes noticed. Among the less civilized nations the preservation of the tribe is the great motive power, and whatever tends to that end is thought to be the greatest virtue. Thus we see how it was that courage became to be so much admired. And investigation shows that...
...Robinson will probably retain his professorship of moral and intellectual philosophy as well as the Elton professorship of Natural Theology. John L. Lincoln, professor of Latin language and literature, is spoken of as a temporary holder of the presidency, but no one has as yet been decided on to fill the place permanently. Prof. Elisha Benjamin Andrews who left the professorship of history and political economy last year to go to Cornell, is one of the most prominent candidates for the presidency and it is highly probable that he will be called to fill the place. President Robinson was graduated...
...third lecture of the course on Anthropology is entitled, "Anthropology and Sociology." It will include a discussion of the Origin of the Moral Sense, the Development of the Social Organism, and the question of a Social Science. A printed tabular analysis, designed to aid in showing the relation of these and some other anthropological subjects, will be distributed...
...However desirable it may be that this change should be made, we feel sure that a very large number of those who have given any attention to American colleges as a moral influence will wish it had been made by the faculty rather than by the overseers. That the faculty should be overborne on a matter of discipline by an outside body having no share in the management, is certainly calculated to aggravate the most serious defect of our collegiate system. Nothing does so much to prevent a "collegiate education" as it is called, in our day and generation, leaving...
...term anthropology was first applied to man in a moral sense only, then to man physically, and finally to man taken as a whole. Kants Anthropology was nothing more than a treatise on psychology. The true anthropologist is he who, while he examines particular facts in every branch connected with his study. looks at them all as a unit. "Anthropology is the science of man and man's life." Ethnology is included in anthropology, as man must be known not only in groups but separately and in different classes...