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GLOBE THEATRE.-Henry Irving in "Much Ado about Nothing." Performance at 7.45.
The conditions under which the dream happened to me were these.-Last Friday I read a very dull book nearly all day,-"grinding" for the Mid-years. At length, in the evening, I could stand it no longer. My mind was tired, my memory overtaxed. With one last attempt to...
Joined to this cynicism and contempt for what the world calls good, we find the modern spirit of questioning. There is nothing so sacred but it must be doubted. His is that same scientific "spirit of negation" which "turns back the strata, concluding coldly with: 'Here's Law! Where's...
Granting, then, that fatalism does not take away the zest of life let us inquire how much it modifies our notions of right and wrong. It is plain that no possible answer to the problem of freewill can change the experience men have had of what is good for them...
We talk of freedom in still another sense when we say that we do something freely, gladly, or willingly. Here it is not a question of obstacles at all; our attention is not directed to the facility or possibility of the action, but to the pleasure we take in doing...