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...satire is more complete, if possible, than that of the celebrated divine. By fully presenting and amusingly overstating a system of philosophy he completely undermines the edifice he is supposed to be rearing. The very title of the book is a jeu d'esprit. As if to show the absurdity of knowledge in general, apart from things known, he derisively calls his book "An Essay on Human Understanding," without the article. Nowhere is his satire more crushing or his humor more delightful than in his chapters on innate ideas. In a masterly way he states the arguments so that they...
...that Locke only needed rhyme to become a poet. We submit respectfully to the author the propriety of turning his work into a metrical form. To revel in a lyric on the "Complex Modes of Extension or Duration and Expansion as measured by Number"! His metaphors are abundant, and show that he had a constant struggle to keep his poetical nature in restraint. His comparison of a sleeping man to an oyster or cockle, his simile in regard to the brains, - that some retain impressions like marble, others like sandstone, others like sand, - and his chemical metaphor about the flames...
...streams that flow where the blue veins show...
...care on the part of the officers and earnest help from the students are necessary to free the club from debt, and render it able to meet its expenses promptly. The liberal subscriptions made by the students after the last boating-meeting is a great help, and goes to show that the money and good-will of the College will not be lacking. Still, the required amount is not yet all subscribed, and but very little has been paid. The Treasurer is in extreme need of funds, and subscribers should pay as promptly as they have subscribed...
...howls and bread-fights become things of the past; and let allowance be made for the jars which must occur in the working of so new and vast an institution. Much expense has been incurred in fitting up a dining-hall worthy of the College; we must now show that the students are worthy of the dining-hall...