Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...main industry of the cotton States was thought to depend on slave labor. The demands of slave labor were two: economic and political. Economically its productions must be free from criticism, and politically it must be protected against social criticism and humanitarian reform. To enforce these demands the representatives of the plantation interest had to do more than stand on the defensive; they had to take the lead of the nation. In this way the whole tendency of American thought and life was for a long time withstood...
...there was any irrepressible conflict of any industrial sort. So far, then, as hindsight avails, the Southerners in 1850 could not have seen any threat to their civilization from specific material interests in the North. It was the North's moral awakening and not its industrial alertness, its free thought and not its free labor which the Southern planters had to fear. We can not, however, see what actually happened unless we go inside of the Southern civilization, observe the forces that threatened it, and humanly understand what purposes and impulses governed the Southerners themselves while they were fighting these...
...circular, with a set of questions appended to all who have graduated from the University since 1886, when the general elective system was adopted. This is in extension of the investigation of the elective system in colleges and secondary schools which was begun some weeks ago. It has been thought that the undergraduates, to whom the former circular was sent, might be somewhat biased by a mistaken sense of loyalty to a system to which the college is thoroughly committed, and that their replies might therefore be somewhat partisan. Furthermore, thought all replies are considered confidential, it is thought that...
...Current Literature" contains an article by Henry D. Lloyd '99 made up of abstracts of some of the accounts of political movements in New Zealand. In the same number is an article by Professor Shaler, "Do We Inherit Seeds of Thought...
...drama is written in heroic verse, and is free in the best modern sense. Its doctrine is that of Spinoza and its thought is deeply philosophical and mystical. The action of the play is comprehended in three periods: Before the Incarnation; during and after the Crucifixion; and on the Judgment Day before dawn. Its story is mainly one of supernatural beings: Raphael's journey to earth is described, and also the effect of the Crucifixion on the Heavenly Hosts. The description of the celestial beings is very even and novel, while in form it is beautifully musical...