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Those who err cannot be converted all at once and forcibly. They must be gradually raised to a sense of their wrong. The miser must be shown how much good can be done with the money which he has hoarded for himself. The drunkard should be shown the necessity of good fellowship and harmony in his own family...
...counteract the very erroneous ideas on the subject that have obtained in some quarters. But we doubt whether such a restriction as is imposed by this latest vote will not give the impression of being dictated more by considerations of mere "policy" than by absolute considerations of right and wrong...
...with other branches of life cannot understand it. Education increases this feeling of dislike because modern thought and education are characterized by a love of precision which renders many all the more impatient at the mystery which attends the church. As a result, several practical, but none the less wrong views of religion are taken. Some dismiss religion entirely as of no importance. Its incoherence condemns it in their sight. These are mostly scientists, literary men, and the like. Their scope is small: their view of life is mistaken. This class, although numerically large, is proportionally small. There is another...
...Catholic Church's policy are manifest. In so many ages it ought to have brought men to an earlier knowledge of learning and opened the way to the new discoveries in science. Instead the Roman Church retarded science in every possible way. It pronounced strong opinions, but wrong ones. Gallileo was persecuted, and the Copernican theory pronounced false and heretical. How can a church be infallible, which has made so many blunders? It has decreed the absolute verbal inspiration of the Bible, which every biblical scholar knows is not the fact, declared that the scriptures should be interpreted...
This state of things is wrong. The athlete who denied his services to the College would meet with reproach on every hand. It should be the same with the literary man Every student of ability should fell it incumbent on him to spend his efforts in Harvard's service, it matters not in what direction. Selfishness in witholding power by which the College might profit is of all kinds the worst. We do not doubt that a little more strenuous effort would often rouse the literary power, weakened by disuse, and turn it to the benefit of the College periodicals...