[Untitled fragment about Bosphorus mission]
[Partial sentence describes sending to the Bosphorus to pressure the Porte toward measures to improve the plight of Christian subjects.]
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Bosphorus
Porte
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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 21, 1877
Page
7
Reform Bill for Universities Faces Clerical Tradition
The Universities Bill moves through Parliament with Oxford and Cambridge named and clerical restrictions on fellowships and headships debated. Advocates urge abolition of clerical tenure as bias against national learning, arguing the bill should remove priestly requirements and expand non clerical appointments while pressing Liberal leadership to push the reform.
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Commons
Lords
Oxford
Cambridge
Burgon
Bellamy
Henry Smith
Sir Henry Maine
Liberal Party
Episcopal Church
New Canadian and English periodical shift in press scene
A quarterly aimed at replacing fortnightly and Contemporary in England is planned. Rev Dr Farrar works on a new Life of Christ part series covering early Church history. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography due March 1 promises piquant content inviting controversy. Two new weekly papers appear, a trater and a sixpenny Conservative London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
England
Farrar
Christ
Harriet Martineau
Tratler
Addison and Steele
London
Schlieman
Athens
W. E. Gladstone
Hampshire Independent
W. Cowper-Temple
Thames
J. Noake
Pall Mall Gazette
Primitive religion and the origins of religious belief
The article reviews Spencer's Data of Sociology, arguing that primitive man forms beliefs from fear of the living and the dead. Ancestor worship evolves into later religious concepts as humans perceive duality in existence, dreams, and unseen powers, with sacrifices and prayers surviving into later monotheistic practice and ethical thought.
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Spencer
Mr. Spencer
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Universities Reform
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