Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...times. It is to Harvard men and Yale men the people should look with more respect when any great economic or social question is under discussion, and it should be their opinions which control the will of the people rather than the opinions of the so-called "self-made" men, - men who made a success in one direction - that of acquiring wealth - not by virtue of their ignorance, but in spite...
...fraternity, the "independents," ally themselves as each one sees fit with one clique or the other. Thus are formed two complete political parties in the literary department, to one of which almost every man there belongs. One party, the oldest, publishes the Chronicle; the other, at first started in self defence but now the dominant, controls the Argonaut. Many men take both papers, but the power behind the thorne or the sanctum is the party which holds the most stock...
...first of the winter athletic meetings comes off this afternoon. A large part of the programme is given to "the noble art of self-defence," an art, however, that does not seem to be appreciated by the audiences at our athletic meetings. For the last few years, at least, the audiences at the meetings seem to have desired the boxer to confine himself to self-defence and at most only to hit his opponent when he approached dangerously near. Now, we object as much as any to unnecessary "slugging," but our observation at the last few winter meetings has been...
...suggested as the ultimate moral principle, which is in the form of a maxim: Act as thou wouldst be minded to act if all the consequences of thy act, for all conscious beings, in so far as such consequences can be foreseen, were to be realized for thy self at the next moment. That is to say, that morality is defined as a perfectly impersonal view of all conscious life and as action based upon such a view. The lecturer then spoke of the relation of the real world to the moral law. Does the real world offer any support...
...laws of mental life and in the laws of physical life. To consider the first of these two - the natural growth of every man seems at first sight to lead him away from what we have defined as genuine morality. For this natural growth leads to individualism, self-assertion and independence, and these tendencies seem opposed to unselfish, impersonal regard for other beings. And it is true that individualism, up to a certain point, is both natural and opposed to moral growth. The happy successful individual is especially apt to be increasingly selfish. Few individuals are, however, quite successful...