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...attempted last year; that of publishing a colored frontispiece. It must be acknowledged that the success of the plan in the present instance is beyond question. And this attractive beginning opens a number devoted extensively to art. There are no less than four articles on art-work of one sort and another. The leading contribution is on "The Moral Painting in the Pantheon and Hotel de Ville of Paris" by Will H. Low. It is richly illustrated from the cartoons of the leading French painters...
...relation of the heathen Scandinavian to his God was a sort of a commercial one; when he wanted something he sacrificed to his God and only then. This sort of belief became unsatisfactory to the people shortly before the dawn of Christianity, and a sort of atheism...
...lecture on Social Ethics last evening, Professor Peabody said he should discuss all questions as to the practicability of the various schemes proposed to remedy existing social evils, and should consider just what sort of men each scheme would produce if it were carried out successfully. All such schemes are primarily moral protests, therefore it is just to put them to a moral test...
...communistic society, the individual drops out of sight. Man has but few wants, of those wants he is totally secure. The spur of action is gone, the need for creative genuis is no longer felt, and we have a quiet submissive sort of beings, with ideas much in the same mould and with originality effaced...
...Professor Sumichrast said he had chosen his subject because Renan had lately died and because Renan had more influence than any other one man on French thought of today. Renan was an optimist, while the majority of the young writers and thinkers of today are pessimists of the worst sort. Renan, says Professor Sumichrast, has not been the prime cause of atheism in France, which really has been steadily diminishing in the last twenty-five years...