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...which fills the needs of our character and our conduct. The desire for firm certitude is not always a wholesome one. If it is the outcome of love of truth it is good, but if it comes from a desire to shirk responsibility it is most ignoble. Men who want every question answered, every doubt cleared, lack the heroism God intended to be in life. In Christ's own time, there were men of this same temperament. He was questioned concerning authority. What was His attitude? The Temptation furnishes one answer. Christ would not avail himself of superhuman or supernatural...
...What is the tendency in a man which makes religion powerful? It is that tendency which makes a man seek to put himself into relationship with the powers of the unseen world. With man in an elementary stage of civilization, the reason for this is that he does not want these unseen powers to be hostile to him. But if the man is to enter successfully into this relationship he must do so on a moral basis. When he does this he makes a transcendent step in advance...
...Ibsen and Shaw, and crush with grimness the wretched Grub Street on their wheel. Nay, more: they--especially Mr. Green--illustrate what journalistic criticism should be.--easily colloquial, anecdotal, popular, yet sound. Of course, the critics could rejoin that such writing means time and work: does the public want it badly enough to pay for it? Mr. Bernbaum, by the way, is depressed over the American public, is past even regretting the incapacity of Americans to appreciate Ibsen, to him "the greatest dramatist since Shakespere, and probably the greatest author of the nineteenth century." Is there perhaps on the Monthly...
...been the custom to cram in some Statue exercises, at which people made lots of noise, and go hot, and dusty, and covered, with confetti, but this year it seems necessary to give up these exercises on account of danger from fire. When we see something going, we always want to get something in its place--and so it is proposed now to have "exercises" in the Stadium. If Class Day was full before, it would be fuller now. The walk to and from the Stadium over in Allston would take sometime--which might be more pleasantly spent. Then...
...reason why a young man goes to a university is because life and strength are transmitted from one individual to another. We get strength from a personality, and therefore want to come into contact with great men. That is why, also, in selecting a list of elective courses a man looks first to see whether the instructor is one who has a strong personality, then at the list of text books to be used...