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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...code of morality, it will be seen, can only influence mental processes indirectly, that is, by determining the mind to such or such researches; but investigation once set afoot, the laws of thought, of evidence, and of logic, and not rules of action, conduct us to truth or falsehood, and thus when rules of morality, as well as all else, are subjected to the scrutiny of reason, they cease even indirectly to influence mental growth and become themselves the product of thought. Thus do we find, superstitions apart, that moral character is the perfect blossom of culture, which differs...
...set for them some chairs...
...understood that responsible parties will soon open a Bureau of Ornamentation, and that by sending them a stamped envelope and $1, Freshmen can be supplied with a full set of shingles, etc., of the prominent societies...
...basis of poetry or serve to illustrate a moral code. The positive method is the method of literature. It clothes the good in forms of beauty, and enlists the aesthetic faculty on the side of the true. The newspaper is the doctor rather than the sculptor, and must sternly set itself to dissect, amputate, and prune away the evils of society, and cannot stop to weep maudlin tears over petty virtues, or to create third-rate literature. Let us not then seek to find in the Nation what does not belong there. But we cannot fail to find...
...University of Vermont at Saratoga - the fact of their not belonging to the Association of American Colleges being of course of no account, as they undoubtedly would be received into it with open arms upon the expression of the slightest wish to belong to it - which are set forth in the conclusion of the letter must be satisfactory both to themselves and every one else: for if they are too busy, that is their own business; if they are too poor, every one will allow that Saratoga is not the place for them; and if they are too proud, surely...