Word: progressivity
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...accept as satisfactory really based on faith? They accept the evidences of their senses, the dictates of their reason, but they do not know that these are true. They know nothing but that they exist. They have agreed, however, to put faith in their reason, because without it no progress can be made. This is even more true of religious faith. Absolutely no progress has been made by a people without religion. No civilized nation can exist or has existed without it. It is absurd to cite cases of individuals who are rationalists, and to say "these men have existed...
...problems, and almost a new meaning to the very word 'university.' That this new situation will be duly appreciated by a fair proportion of the one thousand millionaires in our land, and by legislators as well as by those who have set their hearts and minds upon the progress of true science in our great and beloved republic in this time of unprecedented educational opportunity, I have not for a moment a shadow of doubt...
Instruction in the Department of Economics in the Plymouth School of Applied Ethics, during the session beginning July 12, 1894, will be devoted to a discussion of the relation between economics and social progress. The idea which underlies it is, that all phases of social activity and living are necessarily bound together...
...spite of it. We Americans are apt to undervalue tradition, and for this very reason I think a study of the motives and principles of such men as Dante of great value in deprovincializing our minds. Its guidance in politics may save the huge baggage wagon of human progress from many a sorry jolt and sometimes even from such a total overturn as that of the French Revolution. Montaigne's unconscious errand was not to break away from tradition, but to show that the past was even more valuable in certain ways as contrast than as example. In literature...
shall merit it shall remain in the college until they shall respectively arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age; they shall then be bound out," etc. Progress in the school-room is deemed the only proper standard of merit, and all pupils who become fifteen years of age and fail to reach the fourth school, after from five to nine years' instruction, will be required to give place to those on the list of applicants for admission...