Intellectual Faculties and the Ardent Desire of Knowledge
Rev J W Burd addresses the Stephenson County Teachers Institute on April 6 1869 urging teachers to foster natural curiosity through clear concepts and varied demonstrations. He extols memory and imagination, cites Bacon Newton Socrates and Franklin, and advocates education as the path to liberty, national strength, and moral progress.
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Teachers’ Institute
Stephenson County
Illinois
J. W. Burd
Earth
Temple of Science
Seneca
Cyrus
Cyrieas
Senate
Rome
Mithradates
Willis
Philosophical Transactions
Magi Bethi
M. Euler
Franklin
Morse
Fulton
Heaven
England
J. W. Burp
Orangeville, Il
A Riddle About Skates And A Ten-Tail Dog
A playful dialogue features a parent promising skates if a claim about a dog with ten tails can be proven. The son poses a math riddle about tails, asserting that if one dog has one more tail than no dog, then a dog must have ten tails, leading to the skates being granted.
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Wes
Memorial Day Observances Issued by Grand Army of the Republic
General Orders from Washington and Illinois detail a nationwide observance of Memorial Day on the 80th day of May to honor Union soldiers. The orders bless the dead, urge Posts to arrange services, invite loyal press, and urge preserving proceedings, with Chicago Posts meeting to organize ceremonies.
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Heanq'ars Grand Army OF the Republic
Qfetor
Washington
D. C
Grand Army of the Republic
United States
Grand Army
Congress of the United States
John A. Logan
N. P. Caipman
Wa. T. Colllins
Grand Army OF Republic
Department OF Illinois
Chicago
Earth
Republic
Narfrow
Cowde
Grand Army of the Union
City of
Discrete Degrees Diagram Explains Spiritual Natural Mind
The doctrine of discrete degrees occupies an important place in the Swedenborgian view. This article presents a diagram to better illustrate the relation between the spiritual and natural mind and the degrees of each. The habitation of The Lord with man.
The Three Degrees of Mind in Swedenborgian Thought
The text outlines natural and spiritual mind degrees from obedience in infancy to rational regeneration, emphasizing discrete stages opened by love and understanding. It links obedience, truth, and love to spiritual progression, noting consciousness requires will and understanding together, with heavenward growth through the three minds mirrored in three heavens.
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Swedenborg
New Church
Childre
Heaven
Nicodemus P
Ogy
Christ
Uniform rate bill adoption by Buchanan physicians
The physicians of Buchanan Mie adopt a uniform rate bill and hire a collector to recover all accounts after sixty days. Accounts over sixty days lead to withheld services unless approved by a supervisor. Mention of David Farragut, McClellan era wages for Brent battery workers, and a Paris publisher’s plan to recruit subscribers are noted amid various historical vignettes. Horace Greeley named to Pacific Railroad commission and accepts.
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Buchanan
Mie
David Farragut
Sandwich Island
David
Brent Battery
New York
George B. McClellan
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Lord Bacon
Newton
Socrates
Plato
Lock
Boyle
Ndin
G. A. Ru
Thomas O. Osborn
Thos. M. Thompson
Villemessan
Carlinville (Ill
Horace Greeley
Exi
Pacific Railroad
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